Getting/Indexing what Named-Entities have said/quoted - machine-learning

I am trying to semi-automatically identify what people/advisers/economists or the like say on the news:
1
But Barclays chief economist Kieran Davies said companies were simply opting against bank funding.
“I don’t think there’s actually a ­constraint on corporate credit from the banks. I think it’s more the case that ­corporates in recent years have either had sufficient cash or access to offshore funding to enable them to do their investment,” Mr Davies said.
2
The the amount of commercial lending for every dollar of residential property lending has plunged from $3.84 to $1.62 over the past 25 years, says ­analysis from Industry Super Australia.
“Consistent analysis demonstrates that we have a systematic issue ­transitioning national savings to real productive capital, such as nation-building infrastructure,” chief ­executive David Whiteley said.
3
Following the settlement, Macquarie’s then chief executive in Asia, Alex Harvey, said he was “quite ­encouraged about SATC, about the risk management framework we’ve now put in place over the last few years and the sort of opportunities that are in front of the trust.”
so with example #1, i would like to get what Mr Davies was saying,
and with example #2, what chief executive David Whiteley was saying,
and with example #3, what Alex Harvey was saying.
what is the best way of getting / indexing what those 3 people said in other 10000 or more articles ?
it feels like a mixed of Name-Entity-Tagging and Relationship-Extraction. Is there a more specific name to what I want to achieve ?

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daily quote for each page with latex

I want create calendar planner from 1/1/2019 to 31/2/2019:
In Main.tex: I use \pgfcalendar{cal}{2019-01-01}{2019-02-31} to create pdf.
One page = one day
Now i want add each different quote to each day.
How write code in quote.tex and connect in Main.tex.
Thanks
\pgfcalendar{cal}{2019-01-01}{2019-02-31}
{%
\LARGE\bfseries
\pgfcalendarweekdayname{\pgfcalendarcurrentweekday},
\pgfcalendarcurrentday{}.
\pgfcalendarmonthname{\pgfcalendarcurrentmonth}
\pgfcalendarcurrentyear{}
%}
\pagebreak
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I'd suggest setting up a daily quote in Excel with all the bells and whistles of formulas to extract the weekday, day, month and year from a date. I pulled some random quotes from the Internets to compile with each of the first 100 days...
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{daily_quote.csv}
Number,Date,Day,Month,Year,DayOfWeek,Quote,Author
1,2019-01-01,1,January,2019,Tuesday,"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.",Aristotle
2,2019-01-02,2,January,2019,Wednesday,The best way out is always through.,Robert Frost
3,2019-01-03,3,January,2019,Thursday,Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.,William B Sprague
4,2019-01-04,4,January,2019,Friday,Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.,Albert Einstein
5,2019-01-05,5,January,2019,Saturday,"Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.",Henry Ford
6,2019-01-06,6,January,2019,Sunday,I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.,Oprah Winfrey
7,2019-01-07,7,January,2019,Monday,"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.",Michael Jordan
8,2019-01-08,8,January,2019,Tuesday,You must be the change you want to see in the world.,Mahatma Gandhi
9,2019-01-09,9,January,2019,Wednesday,What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.,Goethe
10,2019-01-10,10,January,2019,Thursday,You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.,Zig Ziglar
11,2019-01-11,11,January,2019,Friday,"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.",Mahatma Gandhi
12,2019-01-12,12,January,2019,Saturday,"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.",Napoleon Hill
13,2019-01-13,13,January,2019,Sunday,Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.,Truman Capote
14,2019-01-14,14,January,2019,Monday,Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.,Japanese Proverb
15,2019-01-15,15,January,2019,Tuesday,"In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.",Theodore Roosevelt
16,2019-01-16,16,January,2019,Wednesday,"If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.",Isaac B Singer
17,2019-01-17,17,January,2019,Thursday,Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.,Unknown
18,2019-01-18,18,January,2019,Friday,"Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.","Charles F Kettering, Engineer and Inventor"
19,2019-01-19,19,January,2019,Saturday,Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.,Mark Twain
20,2019-01-20,20,January,2019,Sunday,Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.,Unknown
21,2019-01-21,21,January,2019,Monday,Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.,Unknown
22,2019-01-22,22,January,2019,Tuesday,Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.,Dan Stanford
23,2019-01-23,23,January,2019,Wednesday,Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.,Albert Einstein
24,2019-01-24,24,January,2019,Thursday,"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.",Hugh Downs
25,2019-01-25,25,January,2019,Friday,"If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.",Marie Osmond
26,2019-01-26,26,January,2019,Saturday,"Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.",Roy Goodman
27,2019-01-27,27,January,2019,Sunday,"If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.",E Joseph Cossman
28,2019-01-28,28,January,2019,Monday,What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.,Ralph Waldo Emerson
29,2019-01-29,29,January,2019,Tuesday,We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.,Ralph Waldo Emerson
30,2019-01-30,30,January,2019,Wednesday,The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.,Mark Twain
31,2019-01-31,31,January,2019,Thursday,"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.",Mark Twain
32,2019-02-01,1,February,2019,Friday,"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.",Mark Twain
33,2019-02-02,2,February,2019,Saturday,"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.",Mark Twain
34,2019-02-03,3,February,2019,Sunday,The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.,Richard B Sheridan
35,2019-02-04,4,February,2019,Monday,"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.",Dr Martin Luther King Jr
36,2019-02-05,5,February,2019,Tuesday,Act or accept.,Anonymous
37,2019-02-06,6,February,2019,Wednesday,"Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.",Tim Blixseth
38,2019-02-07,7,February,2019,Thursday,The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.,Bono
39,2019-02-08,8,February,2019,Friday,Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.,Dr Phil
40,2019-02-09,9,February,2019,Saturday,"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.",Stephen R Covey
41,2019-02-10,10,February,2019,Sunday,People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.,Norman Vincent Peale
42,2019-02-11,11,February,2019,Monday,Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.,Anonymous
43,2019-02-12,12,February,2019,Tuesday,Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.,"Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist"
44,2019-02-13,13,February,2019,Wednesday,I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones.,John Cage
45,2019-02-14,14,February,2019,Thursday,Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.,Albert Einstein
46,2019-02-15,15,February,2019,Friday,The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.,Unknown
47,2019-02-16,16,February,2019,Saturday,The best way to predict the future is to create it.,Unknown
48,2019-02-17,17,February,2019,Sunday,Anyone can do something when they WANT to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it.,Dr Phil
49,2019-02-18,18,February,2019,Monday,"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.",Dr Denis Waitley
50,2019-02-19,19,February,2019,Tuesday,Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.,Sir Winston Churchill
51,2019-02-20,20,February,2019,Wednesday,Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit.,Conrad Hilton
52,2019-02-21,21,February,2019,Thursday,Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.,Unknown
53,2019-02-22,22,February,2019,Friday,Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.,John Wooden
54,2019-02-23,23,February,2019,Saturday,"There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it.",Mario Cuomo
55,2019-02-24,24,February,2019,Sunday,"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.",Richard Bach
56,2019-02-25,25,February,2019,Monday,Vision doesn't usually come as a lightening bolt. Rather it comes as a slow crystallization of life challenges that we one day recognize as a beautiful diamond with great value to ourselves and others.,Dr Michael Norwood
57,2019-02-26,26,February,2019,Tuesday,"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.",Dr Joyce Brothers
58,2019-02-27,27,February,2019,Wednesday,Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.,Samuel Beckett
59,2019-02-28,28,February,2019,Thursday,Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.,Rosalind Russell
60,2019-03-01,1,March,2019,Friday,Cause change and lead. Accept change and survive. Resist change and die.,"Ray Norda, Chairman, Novell"
61,2019-03-02,2,March,2019,Saturday,"Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you're still trying, keep it up! You're right on track.",Matthew Keith Groves
62,2019-03-03,3,March,2019,Sunday,"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.",Bill Bernbach
63,2019-03-04,4,March,2019,Monday,An obstacle is often a stepping stone.,Prescott
64,2019-03-05,5,March,2019,Tuesday,Life is trying things to see if they work,Ray Bradbury
65,2019-03-06,6,March,2019,Wednesday,"If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few.",Anonymous
66,2019-03-07,7,March,2019,Thursday,Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.,Dennis P Kimbro
67,2019-03-08,8,March,2019,Friday,"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.",Ralph Waldo Emerson
68,2019-03-09,9,March,2019,Saturday,Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.,Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
69,2019-03-10,10,March,2019,Sunday,"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.",Thomas Jefferson
70,2019-03-11,11,March,2019,Monday,"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.",Albert Einstein
71,2019-03-12,12,March,2019,Tuesday,"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.",Machiavelli
72,2019-03-13,13,March,2019,Wednesday,Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.,Mahatma Gandhi
73,2019-03-14,14,March,2019,Thursday,You are what you think about all day long.,Dr Robert Schuller
74,2019-03-15,15,March,2019,Friday,What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.,Ralph Waldo Emerson
75,2019-03-16,16,March,2019,Saturday,"Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.",Booker T Washington
76,2019-03-17,17,March,2019,Sunday,"Talent is formed in solitude, character in the bustle of the world.",Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
77,2019-03-18,18,March,2019,Monday,"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.",Elbert Hubbard
78,2019-03-19,19,March,2019,Tuesday,"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.",JM Power
79,2019-03-20,20,March,2019,Wednesday,By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day,Robert Frost
80,2019-03-21,21,March,2019,Thursday,"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.",Maya Angelou
81,2019-03-22,22,March,2019,Friday,The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.,William James
82,2019-03-23,23,March,2019,Saturday,"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'",Sydney Harris
83,2019-03-24,24,March,2019,Sunday,Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.,Richard L Evans
84,2019-03-25,25,March,2019,Monday,In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.,Robert Frost
85,2019-03-26,26,March,2019,Tuesday,"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.",Eleanor Roosevelt
86,2019-03-27,27,March,2019,Wednesday,Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.,Seneca
87,2019-03-28,28,March,2019,Thursday,"Do first things first, and second things not at all.",Peter Drucker
88,2019-03-29,29,March,2019,Friday,The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.,Foster's Law
89,2019-03-30,30,March,2019,Saturday,Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.,Joe Clark
90,2019-03-31,31,March,2019,Sunday,I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.,Winston Churchill
91,2019-04-01,1,April,2019,Monday,Positive anything is better than negative thinking.,Elbert Hubbard
92,2019-04-02,2,April,2019,Tuesday,People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.,Ralph Waldo Emerson
93,2019-04-03,3,April,2019,Wednesday,"Those who wish to sing, always find a song.",Swedish Proverb
94,2019-04-04,4,April,2019,Thursday,"If you're going through hell, keep going.",Winston Churchill
95,2019-04-05,5,April,2019,Friday,"The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.",Ralph Waldo Emerson
96,2019-04-06,6,April,2019,Saturday,Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.,Voltaire
97,2019-04-07,7,April,2019,Sunday,"Enduring habits I hate…. Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.","Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 1882"
98,2019-04-08,8,April,2019,Monday,There is no education like adversity.,Disraeli
99,2019-04-09,9,April,2019,Tuesday,He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.,Friedrich Nietzsche
100,2019-04-10,10,April,2019,Wednesday,Adversity introduces a man to himself.,Unknown
\end{filecontents*}
\usepackage{datatool}
\begin{document}
\DTLloadrawdb[keys = {
Number,
Date,
Day,
Month,
Year,
DayOfWeek,
Quote,
Author
}]
{DailyQuote} % DB name
{daily_quote.csv} % Filename
\raggedright
\DTLforeach
{DailyQuote}
{\Day = Day,
\Month = Month,
\Year = Year,
\DayOfWeek = DayOfWeek,
\Quote = Quote,
\Author = Author
}{
\clearpage
\section*{\DayOfWeek, \Month~\Day, \Year}
\Quote~\textit{\Author}
}
\end{document}

GICS to NAICS crosswalk

For the last two weeks I have been in search of a mapping/crosswalk between Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) and North American Industry Classification Standard (NAICS) and have found little luck.
NAICS: https://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/sssd/naics/naicsrch?chart=2017
GICS: https://www.msci.com/gics
This is something I feel like should exists as there is plenty of GICS/NAICS classified data researchers would like to relate.
Does anyone know of such a mapping/crosswalk or a reason why this could never be done?
GICS values are actually market data sold by Standard and Poors. Since S&P created and owns the mapping, you have to pay for the information. Many investment banks provide the GICS data but they have a license from S&P. That's why there isn't a public utility to lookup/map to other codes.

Zener Diode - What constitutes "Similar?"

I have very little experience with ECE in general and I am delving into using an Arduino for some small hobby type projects.
I was following an online guide, and the person who wrote says that I need:
"2 - 1N5227 or similar 3.6V biased zener diodes"
I have read up a bit on Zener Diodes and now understand what they do and what their purpose is. I am not able to tell what he means by similar in this context though. I purchased a Diode Kit that includes 4 types of Zener Diodes. They all have different part numbers and voltages.
The 4 I have are:
1N751 5.1V
1N4733 5.1V
1N4735 6.2V
1N4742 12V
Would any of those be usable in this context or should I order the specific model he states?
The guide being referenced is this, if it is helpful: http://www.instructables.com/id/RC-Transmitter-to-USB-Gamepad-Using-Arduino/
I really appreciate the time and assistance with this, this is a fun area to learn in!
In electronics and other engineering areas, similar refers to the property that stands out (in this case the voltage), in your case refers to looking for another zener diode whose voltage is similar to the example. As I see none of those diodes replaces the example.
Zener diodes has two parameters you need to match in the selection of a replacement (independently the manufacturer):
The Zener voltage (Vz) and the diode power.
For your application you will need a Zener diode of 3.6 V, and usually with 1/4 W to 1/2 W (depending the application power you will need) it will be enough.
You need also to calculate the limiting resistor for the Zener diode.
I recommend you to read the book of Albert Paul Malvino or similar to better understand.
Regards.

RedPitaya case or housing options?

The RedPitaya is a great looking instrument, but I'm afraid that I'll kill my new (expensive) device by stray voltage or ESD off my bench, within a few days.
Is it planned to make an optional "professional" case or similar to protect it?
Has anyone already created a 3D model so a printable case or housing could be made?
As a quick fix, I would:
use a piece of plain printer paper on the bench, underneath the Red Pitaya (it's typically more conductive than a typical plastic coating on the bench, but still not so cunductive as to short anything on the board bottom), and
more importantly, each time when approaching the bench, first touch the outside of one of the golden SMA jacks.
Probably any quick google search would answer the question but for the sake of completeness, I will answer this quesiton with what I found in my quick search.
Purchase Options
Now a days, there are several cases available for the pitaya:
Available on RS-components, Reichelt, amoung others:
RS Code: RS819-4077
Manufacturer: Red Pitaya
Manufacturer Ref: 1600 0715 001
Approximate cost: 20 Euros + Shipping + taxes
What appears to be 3d printed providers:
Nylon Plastic closed top case : Approximate 30 Euros
Nylon Plastic open top case
Printing Options
If you happen to have your own 3D printer then you can print one of many available designs.
Closed Top case
Open Top case
A Shielded Case Github Prject, on Thingiverse, on Youmagine
Others can be found on http://www.yeggi.com/ , http://grabcad.com/ ,...

Why does this API return its response in AFNetworking as a "failure", when it's exactly what it's supposed to be and the status code is 200?

I formulate a POST to an API called Diffbot and it returns exactly what I want; a bunch of parsed articles. (Here's how the API is interacted with.)
I do this with the following code (with the exception of me removing my token):
[AFDiffbotClient sharedClient].operationQueue.maxConcurrentOperationCount = NSOperationQueueDefaultMaxConcurrentOperationCount;
NSMutableArray *individualRequests = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (NSDictionary *URLAndID in URLsAndIDs) {
NSString *articleURL = [URLAndID objectForKey:#"URL"];
NSString *requestURL = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"/api/article?token=...&fields=text,title,url&fields=text,title,url&url=%#", articleURL];
[individualRequests addObject:#{#"method": #"GET",
#"relative_url": requestURL}];
}
NSError *error;
NSData *individualRequestsJSONData = [NSJSONSerialization dataWithJSONObject:individualRequests options:kNilOptions error:&error];
NSString *individualRequestsJSONString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:individualRequestsJSONData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSDictionary *parameters = #{#"token": #"...",
#"batch": individualRequestsJSONString};
[[AFDiffbotClient sharedClient] setParameterEncoding:AFFormURLParameterEncoding];
[[AFDiffbotClient sharedClient] postPath:#"http://diffbot.com/api/batch" parameters:parameters success:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, id responseObject) {
NSLog(#"WIN");
} failure:^(AFHTTPRequestOperation *operation, NSError *error) {
NSLog(#"%#", error);
}];
And here's part of the response I get back (full response on GitHub):
Error Domain=AFNetworkingErrorDomain Code=-1016 "Expected content type {(
"text/json",
"application/json",
"text/javascript"
)}, got text/plain" UserInfo=0xc0a43b0 {NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=[
{"headers":[{"name":null,"value":"HTTP/1.1 200 OK"},{"name":"Transfer-Encoding","value":"chunked"},{"name":"Vary","value":"Accept-Encoding"},{"name":"Date","value":"Tue, 21 Jan 2014 02:42:38 GMT"},{"name":"Content-Type","value":"application/json"},{"name":"Server","value":"Apache-Coyote/1.1"}],"body":"{\"category\":\"business_finance\",\"title\":\"A Firsthand Account of Microsoft\\u2019s Employee-Ranking System\",\"text\":\"There were seven or eight of us managers in the conference room, all peers, as well as our own manager. The conference rooms all had large tables, whether heavy varnished oak or cheap plywood. The chairs were the sort that let you lean back with increasing tension, and they had a few levers underneath the seat that raise and lower the seat and adjust the back. I\\u2019m a fidgeter, so I played with them a lot during meetings.\\nWe were mostly white, and all men. Each of us had between three and six \\u201Cdirect reports\\u201D: nonmanager programmers who we oversaw. We were the direct reports of our manager. There were lots and lots of managers at Microsoft\\u2014it was the only path to advancement, so the company structure became more and more steeply vertical. Once or twice a year, we would all get together and decide how good each of our reports was, by ordering them from best to worst.\\nThe system was called the stack rank.\\nFollowing Friday\\u2019s news of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer\\u2019s imminent retirement, postmortems of his lackluster 13-year reign have pointed to stack ranking \\u2014which, to be entirely fair, predated him\\u2014as both a cause and a symptom of the corporation\\u2019s decline. As a software developer and later development lead at Microsoft between 1998\\u20132003, I had to evaluate others and be evaluated myself under this system. And I can say that yes, stack ranking is as toxic for innovation and integrity and morale as media reports made it out to be , and then some.\\nEach report\\u2019s name was written on an index card and put on the table. It was a two-step process. First, reports were broadly sorted into four buckets: excellent, good, mediocre, and awful. Then, within each bucket, people were paired for comparison and bubbled up or down. Managers would argue whether a particular report was better or worse than some other manager\\u2019s report in the same bucket. Our manager would adjudicate the debates. Some managers were better fighters than others.\\nA manager\\u2019s goals here are twofold. First, you want to place your best people as high as possible on the ladder. This will help them get big bonuses, promotions, and raises, and thus keep them happy and less likely to leave your group or the company. Second, if you\\u2019re unfortunate enough to have weak reports, you want either to help them by placing them sufficiently high that they don\\u2019t get dinged too badly come the annual review, or to throw them to the wolves and let them get ranked low. If you give up on them, they\\u2019ll be put on a dead-end track that marks them as more or less useless. The object is to get them out from under you and make them someone else\\u2019s problem.\\nI was lucky not to have any weak reports. I had been encouraged to take one at an earlier point, but frenetically talked my way out of it, using all the managerese I could summon to argue that he didn\\u2019t belong on my team.\\nMy reports seemingly did fine. I got them all into the top two buckets. After the stack rank was over, our boss, who\\u2019d overseen the whole meeting, took our stack rank and then went to another, similar meeting one level up, where now we would be stacked and ranked behind our backs, then mixed in with the stack we\\u2019d just created, cruelly shuffled like a deck of human cards.\\nEventually, the vice presidents would have to bargain among themselves for how many bonuses and raises they would get for their entire organizations, then ration them out according to the stack rank. People would then be assigned one of three grades: 4.0 (Above Average), 3.5 (Average), and 3.0 (Below Average). The very rare 4.5 got you a set of steak knives ; a 2.5 meant you were fired (more or less). I\\u2019m not sure if Alan Turing himself could have gotten a 5.0.\\nThe stack rank was harmful. It served as an incentive not to join high-quality groups, because you\\u2019d be that much more likely to fall low in the stack rank. Better to join a weak group where you\\u2019d be the star, and then coast. Maybe the executives thought this would help strong people lift up weak teams. It never worked that way. More often, it just encouraged people to backstab their co-workers, since their loss entailed your profit.\\nThe stack rank was a zero-sum game\\u2014one person could only excel by the amount that others were penalized. And it was applied at every level of the organization. Even if you were in a group of three high performers, it was very likely that one of you would be graded Above Average, one Average, and one Below Average. Unless your manager was a prick or an idiot or both, the ordering would reflect your relative skills, but that never came as too much comfort to the hard-working schlub who just wasn\\u2019t as good as the other two.\\nThis was my problem. I had three reports, A, B, and C, and they neatly fit into three categories: C was good, B was great, and A was fantastic. They were all nice and retiring sorts\\u2014they weren\\u2019t self-promoters, which put them at a disadvantage at Microsoft\\u2014and I did want to do well by them. Based on their position in the stack rank, I thought that this would have been a fair assessment of them relative to the company in general:\\nMy Ideal Distribution\\nA: Above Average\\nB: Above Average\\nC: Average\\nAbove Average would get A and B nice bonuses and raises, while C might get a small raise and a decent bonus with an Average. That didn\\u2019t happen. My manager told me baldly that this was how it would go:\\nThe Actual Distribution\\nA: Above average\\nB: Average\\nC: Below average\\nMy desired rankings were out of the question, since my manager would then have had to steal that extra Above Average from some other manager. I thought that B could live with Average (we were all well-compensated, after all), but rating C as Below Average hurt.\\nSo I argued for C, and my manager said there was exactly one alternative:\\nThe Alternative Distribution\\nA: Average\\nB: Average\\nC: Average\\nBut A had been at the very top of the stack! How could A do worse than people we\\u2019d all agreed were weaker programmers? I gave up and let C take the Below Average. This is the zero-sum game at work.\\nI still feel bad about this.\\nThen I had to explain things to my reports. This illustrated another problem with the system: It destroyed trust between individual contributors and management, because the stack rank required that all lower-level managers systematically lie to their reports. Why? Because for years Microsoft did not admit the existence of the stack rank to nonmanagers . Knowledge of the process gradually leaked out, becoming a recurrent complaint on the much-loathed (by Microsoft) Mini-Microsoft blog , where a high-up Microsoft manager bitterly complained about organizational dysfunction and was joined in by a chorus of hundreds of employees. The stack rank finally made it into a Vanity Fair article in 2012, but for many years it was not common knowledge, inside or outside Microsoft. It was presented to the individual contributors as a system of objective assessment of \\u201Ccore competencies,\\u201D with each person being judged in isolation.\\nWhen review time came, and programmers would fill out a short self-assessment talking about their achievements, strengths, and weaknesses, only some of them knew that their ratings had been more or less already foreordained at the stack rank. The ones who knew could sometimes be recognized by their flip comments on their performance reviews, like the hot-tempered guy who wrote every year in \\u201CAreas to Improve,\\u201D \\u201CI will try to be less of an asshole.\\u201D\\nThey were exceptions, though. If you did know about the stack rank, you weren\\u2019t supposed to admit it. So you went through the pageantry of the performance review anyway, arguing with your manager in the rhetoric of \\u201Ccore competencies.\\u201D The managers would respond in kind. Since the managers had little control over the actual score and attendant bonus and raise (if any), their job was to write a review to justify the stack rank in the language of absolute merit. 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Which as you can see at the top indicates it returned an error. Yet... a little further down it returns what the API should: a bunch of JSON objects. It even records it on my Diffbot account as successful API calls.
And I know it indicates it wants JSON to be passed, but if I change AFFormURLParameterEncoding to AFJSONParameterEncoding I just get this:
Error Domain=AFNetworkingErrorDomain Code=-1011 "Expected status code in (200-299), got 401" UserInfo=0xc3f91e0 {NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion={"error":"Not authorized API token.","errorCode":401}, AFNetworkingOperationFailingURLRequestErrorKey=<NSMutableURLRequest: 0xc2d2bf0> { URL: http://diffbot.com/api/batch }, NSErrorFailingURLKey=http://diffbot.com/api/batch, NSLocalizedDescription=Expected status code in (200-299), got 401, AFNetworkingOperationFailingURLResponseErrorKey=<NSHTTPURLResponse: 0xc0b2e10> { URL: http://diffbot.com/api/batch } { status code: 401, headers {
Connection = "keep-alive";
"Content-Encoding" = gzip;
"Content-Type" = "application/json;charset=UTF-8";
Date = "Tue, 21 Jan 2014 02:55:06 GMT";
Server = "nginx/1.3.4";
"Transfer-Encoding" = Identity;
Vary = "Accept-Encoding";
} }}
Is this an AFNetworking bug (unlikely, but I am using AFNetworking 1.0 still), or something I'm doing foolishly (more likely)?
Looks like you are not alone with this issue. The first error you included seems to be sending more than one server response, hence appearing as "text/html".
You can try the following "hackish" solution and add "text/html" to your acceptable types. See if this helps:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/12726827/1134576
Your second error is a 401 error, with is '401 Unauthorized' which means there is a credentials error.

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