Friendly Societies
Social security through community
We, the "Friendly Societies", are a worldwide alliance of small communities committed to providing mutual support in emergencies. It is based on the principles of personal responsibility, trust and voluntary solidarity.
At the same time we see ourselves as a union of free people and share the conviction that the constant work on ourselves leads to a better coexistence in the world.
We try to pay attention to the Spiral Dynamics (Graves, Beck).
Ideals
Our goal is mutual assistance in emergencies, based on the following shared ideals:
- Responsible, conscientious individuals are united in one community through personal choice.
- This electoral community creates a framework for implementing and practising community action with a distinct momentum.
- Individuals show genuine and insightful concern about their fellow man.
- We promise each other reliability. We promise each other absolute honesty.
- The community recognizes the individuality and sovereignty of its members, protecting privacy and respecting private ownership, as well as different financial circumstances.
- Everyone fully understands the goals of the community and contributes to their implementation.
- We help each other in emergencies and difficult life events, improving living conditions and supporting one another during our personal journeys.
Mutual support in emergencies, is both an aim and a duty.
Social security occurs in human encounters through voluntary solidarity. When people get closer to others and show they care, this connection promotes an awareness of emergencies. When people succeed in perceiving emergencies and overcoming them together, trust grows.
The strength of a community is measured by the well-being of the weak and the needy. The community offers help where needed and resources that those concerned cannot provide for themselves. The community only acts when all members have mutually agreed.
For this reason, regular face-to-face meetings and mutual understanding are crucial to the success of these communities. Communities are created to ensure all members can get to know one another well enough.
Emergency aid is received through compassion, assistance and voluntary donations. Security is created through the trust each individual has in the community and not through formal contracts. There are no legal claims whatsoever.
Structure
Collaboration within Friendly Societies is built on three tiers:
Community
Friendly Societies are clearly arranged, small communities consisting of 10-20 people or families who know one another. These members bring mutual trust and build on this.
Alliance
10-30 of these communities form an alliance. Each of the participating communities is represented in these alliances by one of its members.
Umbrella Organization
Each alliance is part of a collective umbrella organization.
Our organizational and solidary structure is built on the principles of subsidiarity and sociocracy.
Subsidiarity
Anything that can be resolved in a lower tier will not be addressed by a higher tier, and anything that cannot be carried out by a lower tier will be brought to the attention of a higher tier for further deliberation.
Sociocracy
Members of each tier cultivate consensus in decision-making. If this is not possible then consent (a solution supported by all) must be reached. This means members must see that the minority has a voice in the decision-making process. A solution must be pursued through dialog until no more serious and justified objections exist within the framework of mutual goals.
Each community chooses a representative to participate in their respective alliance. Likewise, each alliance chooses a representative to participate in the umbrella organization.
Within the communities and alliances and in the umbrella organization, all decisions are reached by sociocratic consent.
Rules
These rules present the current state of affairs. The societal framework can change and Friendly Societies will continuously benefit from their experiences and learn from these. This will result in a continuous process of adaptation.
Membership
- Members are not actively solicited. Those interested in becoming members must take the initiative to approach a community.
- Admission into a community is determined by consensus following an introductory period.
- Membership automatically ends as soon as the member in question leaves the community or if all other members decide to end the membership based on their community rules (in theory, ultimately when they give their consent to expel a member).
Responsible behavior
- Firstly, each member is responsible for themselves and must consider their own risks, savings, income and expenditure in old age, etc.
Each will be asked to have or create their own financial plan. One possibility could be participating in an optional Friendly Societies Provident Fund savings plan, similar to the CPF in Singapore.
These are difficult topics, often feared and dreaded. However, if desired, the group can help to tackle these. - It is not always possible to avoid emergencies but often it is possible to prevent financial strain for the individual and, consequently, for the community. In this way, it could make sense to outsource some financial risks and for the community to come up with recommendations for a continued course of action. Examples could include: taking out individual liability insurance, term life insurance for single income families, disability insurance, etc.
Funding
- Obviously, while there are concrete recommendations, it is up to each community to choose how they will organize financial assistance - whether they collect regular payments (for example monthly contributions or a small percentage of each member's personal household expenditure), whether they accumulate savings, or whether they only act when necessary, having worked out and arranged a rapid course of action for these situations.
- Each community must have a tangible written plan so they can take responsible financial action. This plan is accessible to all (within the Friendly Societies and also outside of specific communities) and each member commits to uphold their community's plan.
- Each individual community must bear the brunt of their own emergencies and not the alliance or umbrella organization.
- To prevent communities from being overwhelmed by a major emergency or a large number of emergencies, respective alliances will set up mutual savings funds.
It is up to the specific alliance to determine how their communities will implement this. Typically, depending on size, social conditions and emergency situations encountered, they can seek a certain amount of alliance reserves. Each community participates with routine contributions, depending on their size. - 10% of the alliance income is passed on to the umbrella organization as a final mutual financial "cushion" for all alliances. The major part of the capital should certainly remain with the alliances, i.e. near the contributors.
Aid
- The principle of mutual aid applies in situations where an individual has an urgent need for something he cannot attain within his means. In this situation, they file a request for aid or the community approaches them.
- Aid can be of a financial or non-financial nature.
- Their community then decides by consent whether to provide aid in this specific circumstance. The goal of community aid is always the mitigation of a particular individual emergency situation.
- In cases of financial support, the community in question bears the financial costs. If the situation requires a significant amount of aid and the community feels overwhelmed, they may appeal for additional support from their alliance.
- In extreme cases, an overwhelmed alliance may also appeal to the umbrella organization to call on other alliances to provide additional aid.
The umbrella organization itself only provides financial assistance as an absolute last resort. - At no point is there a legal claim for aid (it is agreed that the nature and extent of the assistance are not enforceable by law). All contributions are in the form of a gift and are, therefore, voluntary.
Further opportunities and projects
Insurance
- Certain goals are easier to achieve through insurance products as opposed to having to ask a solidary community for aid.
At an adequate size, there could be advantages for members of being able to cover certain financial risks according to strict actuarial requirements by Friendly Societies (for example, survivor's pension, disability pension).
Provident Fund
- We are working on a voluntary savings plan for retirement funds and healthcare.
(see link)
Notes
A "community for mutual support in emergencies" can master many situations, as people are empathetic and show solidarity on their own. However, at the moment, it is not intended to be a solution or an alternative to an autonomous retirement and healthcare provision, neither is it suitable for such purposes. But we are working on it.
Much of what we do was inspired by Artabana (healthcare financing based on the principles of autonomy and solidarity).
How can I join?
You can write to the nearest community and ask if there is still space and if they are interested in taking you on as a member. If you don't have a community near you, then please feel free to start your own and we shall find an alliance for you.
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Newsletter
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Links
- Video (by Anton Howes)
- Friendly society (Mises Institute)
Alliances
- Libertarian Societies
- Friendly Liberland
- North Bay Societies
- Friendly Digital Nomads
- The German Speaking Friendly Society
Documents
- Provident Fund (in progress)
- Open Trust Alliance
Other interesting topics
- Homo Socialis
- Bitnation, Pangea
- Liberland
- Free Private Cities, read Book by Titus Gebel
- Spiral Dynamics, read Book by Don Beck
- BitGreen
- Artabana (Switzerland)
- Social Evolution


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Keys of a backend can only be retrieved as a full key set. Currently it is not possible to fetch a part of the keys of a backend. So the user needs to cut out the interesting keys with ksCut()
afterwards. If the keys should be committed again, the whole key set must be preserved. Otherwise, the clipped keys will be removed permanently.
This restriction simplifies storage plugins while it does not limit the user. Other plugins would not be able to fulfil their purpose without the full KeySet
. For example, a plugin that checks the availability and structure of all keys cannot work with a partial key set.
It is problematic to have too many keys in one backend. The applications would need memory for unnecessary configuration data. Instead we recommend introducing several mount points to split up the keys into different backends. Splitting up key sets makes sense if any application requests only a part of the configuration. No benefits arise if every application requests all keys anyway.
Let us assume that many keys reside in user/sw
and an application only needs the keys in user/sw/org/app
. To save memory and get better startup times for the application, a new backend can be mounted at user/sw/org/app
. On the other hand, every mounted backend causes a small run time overhead in the overall configuration system.
The solution in Elektra is flexible, because the user decides the granularity. It is possible to mount a backend on every single key, so that every key can be requested for itself. If no backends are mounted, all keys reside in the default backend.
To sum up, Elektra's core searches for the nearest mount point and gets the configuration from there. It is possible that the user gets more configuration than requested. The user can decide by means of mounting how much configuration on specific requests are returned.


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Designed a portable, scalabe two-dimensional pose estimation system for a humaoind robot using Deep learning. My work comprised from collecting data to make a proprietary dataset to training a prototype model that could be subjected to a varying degree of use cases with minimal changes.
Member of the Product Runtime team. My work primarily consisted of fixing bugs in the native Postman App and the open source modules of Postman, along with generating user facing documentation for direct consumption.
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Supporting offline functionality in your mobile app
About offline functionality
Your mobile app can run offline and allow users to query and create mutations using the @aerogear/voyager-client module.
All queries are performed against the cache, a mutation store (or offline store) supports offline mutations.
If a client goes offline for a long period of time, the mutation store negotiates local updates with the server using conflict resolution strategies.
When a client comes online again, the mutations are replicated back to the server.
Developers can attach listeners to get notifications about updates applied on the server or failing, and take appropriate actions.
By default queries and the results of mutations are cached.
Mutations can change query results, make sure to call the refetchQueries
or update
options of the mutate
method to ensure the local cache is kept up to date.
The @aerogear/voyager-client module also provides cache helper functions to reduce the amount of code required, as described in Using cache update helpers.
For more information about mutate
and the options available, see Apollo’s document about mutations.
Creating an offline client
The @aerogear/voyager-client module provides an OfflineClient
class which exposes the following functionality:
-
direct access to the mutation store
-
allows you register multiple offline event listeners as described in Listening for events
-
automatically ensures the mobile app’s local cache is kept up to date. This client automatically generates
update
methods as described in Using cache update helpers.
To create the client:
import { OfflineClient } from '@aerogear/voyager-client';
let config = {
httpUrl: "http://localhost:4000/graphql",
wsUrl: "ws://localhost:4000/graphql",
}
async function setupClient() {
let offlineClient = new OfflineClient(config);
let client = await offlineClient.init();
}
setupClient();
This client can replace an Apollo client as it supports the same functionality.
Detecting mutations while offline
If a mutation occurs while the device is offline, the client.mutate
function:
-
returns immediately
-
returns a promise with an error
You can check the error object to isolate errors relating to offline state.
Invoking the watchOfflineChange()
method on an error object watches for when an offline change is synced with the server, and sends a notification when triggered.
For example:
client.mutate(...).catch((error)=> {
// 1. Detect if this was an offline error
if(error.networkError && error.networkError.offline){
const offlineError: OfflineError = error.networkError;
// 2. We can still track when offline change is going to be replicated.
offlineError.watchOfflineChange().then(...)
}
});
| In addition to watching individual mutations, you can add a global offline listener when creating a client as described in Listening for events. |
Performing mutations while offline
The @aerogear/voyager-client module provides an offlineMutate
method which extends Apollo’s mutate function with some extra functionality.
This includes automatically adding some fields to each operation’s context.
To set up the offline client, see Creating an offline client.
Once set up is complete, offlineMutate
is then available to use.
Note: The offlineMutate
method accepts the same parameters as mutate
with some additional optional parameters also available.
const { CacheOperation } = require('@aerogear/voyager-client');
client.offlineMutate({
...
updateQuery: GET_TASKS, (1)
operationType: CacheOperation.ADD, (2)
idField: "id", (3)
returnType: "Task" (4)
...
})
| 1 | The query or queries which should be updated with the result of the mutation. |
| 2 | The type of operation being performed. Should be "add", "refresh" or "delete". Defaults to "add" if not provided. |
| 3 | The field on the object used to identify it. Defaults to "id" if not provided. |
| 4 | The type of object being operated on. |
Supporting app restarts while offline
An Apollo client holds all mutation parameters in memory. An offline Apollo client continues to store mutation parameters and once online, it restores all mutations to memory. Any update functions that are supplied to mutations cannot be cached by an Apollo client resulting in the loss of all optimistic responses after a restart. Update functions supplied to mutations cannot be saved in the cache. As a result, all optimisticResponses disappear from the application after a restart and only reappear when the Apollo client becomes online and successfully syncs with the server.
To prevent the loss of all optimisticResponses after a restart, you can configure the Update Functions to restore all optimisticResponses.
const updateFunctions = {
// Can contain update functions from each component
...ItemUpdates,
...TasksUpdates
}
let config = {
mutationCacheUpdates: updateFunctions,
}
You can also use getUpdateFunction
to automatically generate functions:
const { createMutationOptions, CacheOperation } = require('@aerogear/voyager-client');
const updateFunctions = {
// Can contain update functions from each component
createTask: getUpdateFunction({
mutationName: 'createTask',
idField: 'id',
updateQuery: GET_TASKS,
operationType: CacheOperation.ADD
}),
deleteTask: getUpdateFunction({
mutationName: 'deleteTask',
idField: 'id',
updateQuery: GET_TASKS,
operationType: CacheOperation.DELETE
})
}
let config = {
...
mutationCacheUpdates: updateFunctions,
...
}
Ensuring specified mutations are performed online only
If you wish to ensure certain mutations are only executed when the client is online, use the GraphQL directive @onlineOnly
, for example:
exampleMutation(...) @onlineOnly {
...
}
Listening for events
To handle all notifications about offline related events, use the offlineQueueListener listener in the config object
The following events are emitted:
-
onOperationEnqueued
- Called when new operation is being added to offline queue -
onOperationSuccess
- Called when back online and operation succeeds -
onOperationFailure
- Called when back online and operation fails with GraphQL error -
queueCleared
- Called when offline operation queue is cleared
You can use this listener to build User Interfaces that show pending changes.
Using cache update helpers
The @aerogear/voyager-client module provides an out of the box solution for managing updates to your application’s cache. It can intelligently generate cache update methods for both mutations and subscriptions.
Using cache update helpers for mutations
The following example shows how to use these helper methods for mutations.
To use these methods, create an offline client as described in Creating an offline client and then use the offlineMutate
method.
The offlineMutate
function accepts a MutationHelperOptions
object as a parameter.
const { createMutationOptions, CacheOperation } = require('@aerogear/voyager-client');
const mutationOptions = {
mutation: ADD_TASK,
variables: {
title: 'item title'
},
updateQuery: {
query: GET_TASKS,
variables: {
filterBy: 'some filter'
}
},
typeName: 'Task',
operationType: CacheOperation.ADD,
idField: 'id'
};
You can also provide more than one query to update the cache by providing an array to the updateQuery
parameter:
const mutationOptions = {
...
updateQuery: [
{ query: GET_TASKS, variables: {} }
]
,
...
};
The following example shows how to prepare an offline mutation to add a task using the mutationOptions
object and how to update the GET_TASK
query for the client’s cache.
const { createMutationOptions, CacheOperation } = require('@aerogear/voyager-client');
client.offlineMutate<Task>(mutationOptions);
If you do not want to use the offline client you can also use the createMutationOptions
function directly.
This function provides an Apollo compatible MutationOptions
object to pass to your pre-existing client.
The following example shows how to use this function where mutationOptions
is the same object as the previous code example.
const options = createMutationOptions(mutationOptions);
client.mutate<Task>(options);
Using cache update helpers for subscriptions
The @aerogear/voyager-client module provides a subscription helper which can generate the necessary options to be used with Apollo Client’s subscribeToMore
function.
To use this helper, we first need to create some options, for example:
const { CacheOperation } = require('@aerogear/voyager-client');
const options = {
subscriptionQuery: TASK_ADDED_SUBSCRIPTION,
cacheUpdateQuery: GET_TASKS,
operationType: CacheOperation.ADD
}
This options object informs the subscription helper that for every data object
received because of the TASK_ADDED_SUBSCRIPTION
the GET_TASKS
query should also be kept up to date in the cache.
You can then create the required cache update functions:
const { createSubscriptionOptions } = require('@aerogear/voyager-client');
const subscriptionOptions = createSubscriptionOptions(options);
To use this helper, pass this subscriptionOptions
variable to the subscribeToMore
function of our ObservableQuery
.
const query = client.watchQuery<AllTasks>({
query: GET_TASKS
});
query.subscribeToMore(subscriptionOptions);
The cache is kept up to date while automatically performing data deduplication.
Using cache update helpers for multiple subscriptions
The @aerogear/voyager-client module provides the ability to automatically call subscribeToMore
on your ObservableQuery
.
This can be useful in a situation where you may have multiple subscriptions which can affect one single query.
For example, if you have a TaskAdded
, TaskDeleted
, and a TaskUpdated
subscription you require three separate subscribeToMore
function calls.
To avoid this, use the subscribeToMoreHelper
function from the @aerogear/voyager-client module to automatically handle this by passing an array of subscriptions and their corresponding queries:
const { CacheOperation } = require('@aerogear/voyager-client');
const addOptions = {
subscriptionQuery: TASK_ADDED_SUBSCRIPTION,
cacheUpdateQuery: GET_TASKS,
operationType: CacheOperation.ADD
}
const deleteOptions = {
subscriptionQuery: TASK_DELETED_SUBSCRIPTION,
cacheUpdateQuery: GET_TASKS,
operationType: CacheOperation.DELETE
}
const updateOptions = {
subscriptionQuery: TASK_UPDATED_SUBSCRIPTION,
cacheUpdateQuery: GET_TASKS,
operationType: CacheOperation.REFRESH
}
const query = client.watchQuery<AllTasks>({
query: GET_TASKS
});
subscribeToMoreHelper(query, [addOptions, deleteOptions, updateOptions]);
Detecting Network Status
Use the NetworkStatus interface to check the current network status, or to register a listener which performs actions when the status of the network changes.
Two default implementations are provided:
-
WebNetworkStatus for web browsers
-
CordovaNetworkStatus for Cordova
The following example demonstrates how to register a listener using CordovaNetworkStatus
:
import { CordovaNetworkStatus, NetworkInfo } from '@aerogear/voyager-client';
const networkStatus = new CordovaNetworkStatus();
networkStatus.onStatusChangeListener({
onStatusChange: info => {
const online = info.online;
if (online) {
//client is online, perform some actions
} else {
//client is offline
}
}
});
let config = {
...
networkStatus: networkStatus,
...
};
//create a new client using the config


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Hi, I'm Andrew Hwang! I'm currently an UCSD student studying Human-Computer Interaction. Solving complex problems and presenting them as clean, sophisticated and intuitive interface design is my passion.
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Exp. Grad: Dec 2018
MAJOR
Cognitive Science w/ Specialization in
Human-Computer Interaction
Understanding why people act and do tasks a certain way has always piqued my interest and was why I chose to major in Cognitive Science — specializing in Human-Computer Interaction. As I furthered my studies, I realized my passion for problem solving and presenting solutions in a simple yet elegant manner.
The world of UI / Ux Design has opened up a means for me to understand people's thought processes and to leverage that understanding into product design that meets user needs and makes people's daily lives easier — whether it be through an app or a physical product.
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Story: The ||kuken
The ||kuken
Title
The ||kuken
Collection
Summary
The people take a long ostrich wing feather and cut off the root to make a //kuken, or barblet, that makes the arrow stick fast in an animal's flesh. The poison on the barblet dissolves off the barblet into the flesh.
Comments
1) See also The ||kuken and ostrich feathers and Feathered arrows and poison and Arrow-making, 2) p.8769v: |han≠kass'o was taught this by his maternal grandfather (Tsatsi) and experienced it himself; arrows with and without barblets, 3) p.8770v: the name for an arrow that is not poisoned, 4) p.8772v: the part of the animal's flesh that the barblet catches on; a man who died from a poisoned wound on his foot (see Gemsbok hunting), 5) This story is found in Book VIII-31
Contributors
|han≠kass'o (Klein Jantje) (VIII)
Date
25 August 1879
Categories
Custom and daily life, Artefact and dress
Keywords
arrows (the making of) , arrows (the name of one that has no poison) , arrows (for springbok are clean and handsome) , arrows (gemsbok's) , arrows (ostrich's) , arrows (for shooting springbok have no barblet) , arrows (for shooting gemsbok and ostrich have a barblet) , arrows (the poisoning of) , arrows (the barblets, or ||kuken used to catch on the animal's flesh) , arrows (and the use of roots of ostrich wing feathers) , ostrich feathers (are cut and divided) , ostrich feathers (are bound with sinew onto the arrow-shaft) , ostrich feathers (wing-feather roots are used to make ||kuken, or barblets to catch on the animal's flesh) , ostrich feathers (and the making of arrows) , ||kuken (or barblet used to catch on the animal's flesh) , ||kuken (teachings about the making of) , ||kuken (the making of using an ostrich wing-feather root) , ||kuken (the poisoning of) , poisoning (methods of) , poisoning (the poison dissolves off the barblet into the flesh) , poisoning (of arrows for hunting) , poisoning (of the arrow barblet, or ||kuken) , poisoning ('we poison downwards') , hunting (and the use of barbed and poisoned arrows) , hunting (the different arrows used for springbok, gemsbok and ostrich) , gemsbok (tactics in hunting) , gemsbok (their arrows have barblets, or ||kuken) , ostrich (tactics in hunting) , ostrich (their arrows have barblets, or ||kuken) , ostrich (their feathers used in making ||kuken or arrow–barblets) , springbok (tactics in hunting) , springbok (their arrows are clean and handsome) , springbok (their arrows are those which have no barblets) , names (a barblet on an arrow called ||kuken) , names (of different arrows) , feather (of the ostrich used to make barblets or ||kuken on arrows) , feather (the making of barblets using an ostrich wing-feather root) , teachings (about the making of arrows) , teachings (about the making of barblets or ||kuken) , education (about the making of arrows) , education (about the making of barblets or ||kuken)
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My background is in teaching Classical Greek and Latin—and about the ancient world. I'm looking forward to moving into the 21st century. There's still a lot of work to be done in the digital humanities, and I've spent some time on a project that makes ancient astronomical texts accessible (in English translations) with an interactive website. But, more than updating access to and enhancing work with ancient texts, I'm excited about all the new avenues for creative design that software engineering opens up. I'm particularly excited about designing applications that have real-world use. I also like learning new languages.


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During my last summer break, 1999, a friend and I ran into a very large quantity of 'Cow-Pie' psilocybe mushrooms; they were only $120/oz., so we figured we could make a fair amount of money if we made a large purchase. During our first meeting with the supplier, we bought 6 ounces and began to sell our product to some of our other friends. We indulged ourselves in this abundance of fungus, tripping on the weekends, and sometimes during the weekdays.
Following some harrowing experiences with the judicial system earlier in the year, a psychiatrist prescribed me a medication called Eskalith to 'balance my moods.' Eskalith is an antidepressent/anti-manic pill, more commonly known as Lithium. I was taking 150 mg. each morning for about 3 months before we got a hold of the moushrooms.
I tripped on a number of occasions during this whole bout, on dosages moving up into the 9 gram mark, and had nothing but beautiful and thouroughly enjoyable experiences.  When I began to experience the first signs of tripping, I called my (buyer) friend up, and had him come get me so I could enjoy the trip with someone else. We went to talk to another friend and eat with him at his resteraunt for about an hour and a half, and still I had experienced no trouble.
At the end of the meal, though, I began to notice a nervous twitching, and as it grew in intensity, a began to blackout for tiny fractions of a second at a time. I was gripped by the fear of the inevitable bad trip, although I had never had one, having tripped nearly forty times before then. I insisted that we go outside and leave, but as I got into the car, everything began spinning, and I threw up everything I had eaten. I was plagued by incessent fears that I cannot explain; all-out claustrophobia even though I was outside, being sure that death was inevitable.
My friend had no idea what to do, so he started driving me to a more experienced, older companion; this just made it worse though, for the quick, continuous movement of the car made me sicker. I was unable to talk, so was therefore unable to tell him to stop, and continued throwing up what little substance I had left in my stomach.
Halfway through the drive, I blacked-out completely, and cannot remember anthing up until when I woke up, propped up in my older friends hands above the toilet, gagging my guts out. When I was through being sick, he helped me get clean, and I went to sleep in his bed for about 2 hours. When I woke up later, I felt completely refreshed and I went home to rest and contemplete this horrid experience.
When I later talked with my two friends, they explained that while I was out, I went into a phase of convulsion-like movement, with my eyes rolled back into my head. I'm glad I don't remember any of this, for what I do remember is, without a doubt, the scariest moments of my life, ever.
If ANYONE has ANY information about my reaction to this unlikely (at least, unbeknownst to me) reaction to the combination, I would be ecstatic to recieve your comments or advice. My e-mail is<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
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Hack 47 Understand DNS Records and Tools
Demystify DNS records. DNS is one of those network services that has to be configured carefully and tested regularly. A misconfigured DNS server can prevent the world from finding your web and mail servers. Worse, a misconfigured DNS server can allow the world to find more than just your web and mail servers. Even if you're not a DNS administrator, you should still know some handy DNS commands. The simple truth is, if DNS isn't working, you're not going anywhere. That means no surfing, no downloading, and no email for you. 5.7.1 Exploring Your ISP's DNSOn your home system, you most likely receive your DNS information from your ISP's DHCP server. Do you know where to find your primary and secondary DNS server addresses? If not, try this: % more /etc/resolv.conf search domain.org nameserver <IP_ADDRESS> nameserver <IP_ADDRESS> Another method is to use the dig (domain information groper) utility. Here, I'll ask for the nameservers (ns) for the sympatico.ca network: % dig ns sympatico.ca ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> ns sympatico.ca ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 4 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; sympatico.ca, type = NS, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: sympatico.ca. 8h29m IN NS ns5.bellnexxia.net. sympatico.ca. 8h29m IN NS ns6.bellnexxia.net. sympatico.ca. 8h29m IN NS dns1.sympatico.ca. sympatico.ca. 8h29m IN NS dns2.sympatico.ca. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns5.bellnexxia.net. 23m45s IN A <IP_ADDRESS> ns6.bellnexxia.net. 32m47s IN A <IP_ADDRESS> dns1.sympatico.ca. 27m28s IN A <IP_ADDRESS> dns2.sympatico.ca. 22m26s IN A <IP_ADDRESS> ;; Total query time: 2038 msec ;; FROM: genisis to SERVER: default -- <IP_ADDRESS> ;; WHEN: Sun Nov 23 17:22:31 2003 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 30 rcvd: 182 <IP_ADDRESS> Understanding DNS entriesdig results are divided into sections. Not surprisingly, the ANSWER SECTION answers the question asked; in this case, "What are the nameservers for sympatico.ca?" In DNS, each entry in the DNS database is called a record. The answer indicates that sympatico.ca has four nameservers. Their hostnames are:
The next section, ADDITIONAL SECTION, maps each hostname in the ANSWER SECTION to its corresponding IP address. As an end user, you're really interested in the IP addresses of your nameservers, not their names. You need the address of least one DNS server before you can resolve any name to an address. The other thing I'd like to point out is the type of records that were returned in the output. Notice that each nameserver record had an NS. If you ever see NS in a DNS database, you know you're looking at a DNS server record. Also, all hosts, regardless of whether they also happen to be a DNS server, web server, or mail server, have an A record. An A record maps a hostname to an IP address. In other words, a DNS server has two records: the NS record indicates that it is a DNS server, and the A record lists its IP address. Can you tell which of the four nameservers in this output is the primary nameserver? You could look at the names and try to figure it out from there. However, it is possible to find out for sure, and it's easy once you know that SOA, the start of authority record, indicates the primary nameserver. Let's ask dig to show us the SOA record: % dig soa sympatico.ca <snip banner> ;; ANSWER SECTION: sympatico.ca. 16m18s IN SOA dns1.sympatico.ca. dns-admin.sympatico.ca. ( <snip> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: sympatico.ca. 3h22m20s IN NS dns2.sympatico.ca. sympatico.ca. 3h22m20s IN NS ns5.bellnexxia.net. sympatico.ca. 3h22m20s IN NS ns6.bellnexxia.net. sympatico.ca. 3h22m20s IN NS dns1.sympatico.ca. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: dns2.sympatico.ca. 8m36s IN A <IP_ADDRESS> ns5.bellnexxia.net. 9m55s IN A <IP_ADDRESS> ns6.bellnexxia.net. 18m57s IN A <IP_ADDRESS> dns1.sympatico.ca. 13m38s IN A <IP_ADDRESS> ;; Total query time: 239 msec ;; FROM: genisis to SERVER: default -- <IP_ADDRESS> ;; WHEN: Sun Nov 23 17:36:22 2003 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 30 rcvd: 228 Notice the answer? Looks like dns1.sympatico.ca or <IP_ADDRESS> is the primary nameserver. We also received an extra section, the AUTHORITY SECTION. Every query except ns will show which nameservers have the "authority" to answer your question. You may prefer to try an any query instead of ns. This will show both the NS records and the SOA record, all in one shot. While you're digging through your ISP's DNS information, you might want to find the name of your SMTP server. Since these servers have mail exchange (MX) records, use an mx query: % dig mx sympatico.ca <snip banner> ;; ANSWER SECTION: sympatico.ca. 27m48s IN MX 5 smtpip.sympatico.ca. sympatico.ca. 27m48s IN MX 5 mta1.sympatico.ca. sympatico.ca. 27m48s IN MX 5 mta2.sympatico.ca. sympatico.ca. 27m48s IN MX 5 mta3.sympatico.ca. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: sympatico.ca. 2h34m29s IN NS dns2.sympatico.ca. sympatico.ca. 2h34m29s IN NS ns5.bellnexxia.net. sympatico.ca. 2h34m29s IN NS ns6.bellnexxia.net. sympatico.ca. 2h34m29s IN NS dns1.sympatico.ca. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: smtpip.sympatico.ca. 28m30s IN A <IP_ADDRESS> mta1.sympatico.ca. 13m56s IN A <IP_ADDRESS> mta2.sympatico.ca. 28m30s IN A <IP_ADDRESS> mta3.sympatico.ca. 13m56s IN A <IP_ADDRESS> <snip> Looks like my ISP has four SMTP servers; I'd better remember which one I'm supposed to use! MX records always include a priority number. In this example, each mail server has a priority of 5, so they all have the same priority. Sometimes you'll see records where one mail server has a higher number than another. Always try sending your email to the server with a lower number—that server has a higher priority. If the priority is 0, you should always use that mail server. This bit of information is good to know if you plan to send someone an email without using a mail client [Hack #48] . 5.7.2 Securing DNSPut on your administrator's hat for a moment and re-examine these dig outputs. Did you happen to notice that the nameservers live on different networks? Let's take another look at those A records for the DNS servers: dns2.sympatico.ca. 8m36s IN A <IP_ADDRESS> ns5.bellnexxia.net. 9m55s IN A <IP_ADDRESS> ns6.bellnexxia.net. 18m57s IN A <IP_ADDRESS> dns1.sympatico.ca. 13m38s IN A <IP_ADDRESS> Two of the four nameservers live on network 204.101.252, and the other two live on network 209.226.175. This is actually a good network design. Several attacks against high-profile companies have succeeded because their DNS servers were all on the same subnet of the same network. (See this article about DNS troubles at Microsoft for an example: http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0FOX/3_6/75645162/p1/article.jhtml.) Realistically, to provide such protection, your company has to enter into an agreement with another company willing to host a copy of your DNS database. That other company may be your ISP, or perhaps a sister company. While adding redundancy, this also adds complexity and another element of trust. It's one thing to keep your own DNS servers up-to-date, fully patched, and securely configured. It's quite another to work with another administrator and assume that she has the resources to devote the same time and effort to your DNS servers. Regardless of how the network is organized, someone has to address the issue of zone transfers. In DNS, your database is called a zone, as it really is just a portion of the globally distributed DNS database. When you need to make a change to your zone, you edit the database on the primary DNS server. However, you have to implement at least one secondary DNS server to provide redundancy. How are those changes propagated to the secondary DNS server(s)?  It's important to make a distinction here. Resolving a hostname is one thing. As an end user, you need that functionality in order to access Internet resources. As an administrator, you want your DNS servers to provide name resolution. Otherwise, you have to listen to a lot of unhappy end users. However, your end users do not need to know the entire contents of your DNS database. The world at large certainly doesn't need to know the name and IP address of every host in your network. Think about that one for a moment. You probably have machines right now called finance, hr, patents, store, or admin. What tasty names those are to fire the imaginations of a malicious user! <IP_ADDRESS> The two-pronged approachYou can use a two-pronged approach to prevent your DNS servers from leaking information you'd rather not have the world see. The first approach is called split DNS.  That small subset is all the world sees. If you think about it for a moment, which records does the world need to know about? Probably just the record for your DNS server (the one in the DMZ, with its secondary preferably hosted at your ISP or somewhere else), the record for your web server, and the record for your SMTP server. Those are the only records that this mini-zone should contain. The second approach is to control zone transfers tightly. The last thing you want to happen is for the DNS server in the DMZ to ask for a copy of your full internal zone. For that matter, you also don't want a user on the Internet to ask your internal DNS server for all of the records in your network. There are multiple ways to control zone transfers, and you should implement all of them. First, read the documentation for your DNS server to see how to restrict the IP addresses that are allowed to ask for zone transfers. (The "Securing an Internet Name Server" link in this hack's Section 5.7.3 section explains how to do this for BIND.) Second, configure your firewalls to control zone transfers. DNS is an interesting protocol, as it uses port 53 with both TCP and UDP. Your firewalls must allow UDP 53; if you deny this, all name resolution will stop. That is a bad thing. However, TCP 53 is used for zone transfers. You must carefully construct a firewall rule that allows TCP 53 only for the specific IP addresses of the DNS servers that need to participate in a zone transfer. Remember, you do want to transfer changes to your secondary servers. Third, create guidelines to test your DNS servers periodically. Notice how complex it was to secure those nameservers. How many things could go wrong? Perhaps an OS patch or a DNS server application patch will introduce a new hole. Perhaps a change in a firewall rulebase will unwittingly reallow zone transfers. You're dealing with multiple DNS servers—probably in multiple locations—and multiple firewalls, which only increases the possibility of error. A routine testing schedule increases the chance of catching those errors before they remain for very long. <IP_ADDRESS> Testing DNSYou can use the axfr switch with dig to test your DNS servers, but I prefer the output provided by host -al. When you run this utility against your own domain name, you should see a result similar to this one: % host -al sympatico.ca rcode = 0 (Success), ancount=4 Found 1 addresses for ns5.bellnexxia.net Found 1 addresses for ns6.bellnexxia.net Found 1 addresses for dns1.sympatico.ca Found 1 addresses for dns2.sympatico.ca Trying <IP_ADDRESS> Server failed, trying next server: Query refused Trying <IP_ADDRESS> Server failed, trying next server: Query refused Trying <IP_ADDRESS> Server failed, trying next server: Query refused Trying <IP_ADDRESS> Server failed: Query refused Remember, host -al asks for a zone transfer. You want your DNS servers to refuse this request. In this example, all four DNS servers received the request, so I know they are up and working. The host utility then requested a zone transfer from each server. Note the order: the first IP address is for the first listed nameserver, and so on. This is important, especially if one of those nameservers responds with a zone transfer. I can't count the number of times I've tested DNS servers and two out of three will refuse the query, but one will allow the zone transfer. You'll know which DNS server was the culprit if you make note of the server response order. This test is especially important if one or more of your DNS servers is hosted elsewhere. Make sure your agreement indicates that you will be regularly testing your DNS servers for misconfigurations. 5.7.3 See Also
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- CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikipedia
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LORD OF THE FLIES (1990) A Film Review by Ted Prigge Copyright 1997 Ted Prigge
Director: Harry Hook Writer: Sara Schiff (from the novel by William Golding) Starring: Bathalzar Getty, Chris Fuhhr, Danuel Pipoly
William Golding's "Lord of the Flies" is obligatory reading for the young student. So obligatory that I never read it. I guess that makes me feel special, but there's something about overly symbolic fables (i.e. Orwell's "Animal Farm," one of my favorites) that gets me, and I wish I had. Of course, I guess I could. But like most famous novels, there's a film adaptation that's about half as good as its source. And that's precisely what I saw when I watched this on TV impromptu during a VERY boring Sunday afternoon here at Temple U.
For those who don't know, "Lord of the Flies" is about a group of school boys who are marooned on an island without any adult supervision (though there's the pilot, but he's so wounded that he's pretty much insane and has to be tied down). The boys need some discipline, so they democratically elect Ralph (Bathalzar Getty, from "Lost Highway"). But as things go on, and as they realize that they're really not going to be rescued in any forseeable future, some become savages, painting their faces, carrying spears, and running around half-naked, speaking in short declaritive sentences, like "Cheif brings gift."
The leader of the other clan is Jack (Chris Fuhhr), who is a kind of asswhole of a kid, who starts off as a bully and proceeds to the totally evil dictator of what turns out to be a clan of savages, alienating Ralph and his only friend, Piggy (Danuel Pipoly), who is supposed to be the wise, overly intellectual kid of them all, who somehow saved his glasses in the crash. The climactic ending is obvious, but not anticlimactic, and, of course, shocking, bringing all the ideas together.
These characters are all supposed to represent one part of the psyche. Ralph is supposed to be the part that is civil and wants law and order. Jack is the savage, immature part. And Piggy, is, of course, the voice of reason in a increasingly chaotic island (there's also another character, Simon, who is pretty much not in this film).
And, of course, everything is supposed to be symbolic. The numerous misadventures of Piggy's glasses (i.e. it's breaking and being stolen), causing him to be near blind, is symbolic of him breaking down, and hoping to be with the other clan. And the actual "lord of the flies," a decapitated boar's head is supposed to be a sign of ultimate evil and horror. Then there's the "beast," which I guess represents their gradually declining civility or something. I didn't read the book, give me a break, I'm bullshitting here.
Anyway, this is all supposed to happen here in this film...and it does. But while apparently in the book, it's supposed to be subtle and we're supposed to watch the story unfold and think about afterwards...much like a good novel. But the director is so paranoid that the Americans won't get it, so he makes everything in our faces. This adheres the story, and makes it seem way too mechanical. Also, this makes the symbol less intense. It's supposed to shock us. I was just like, "Oh, he broke his glasses, ho hum."
The acting is also not very good. While Bathalzar and Fuhhr are merely passable as the two leads, the guy who plays Piggy can't even complete a sentence, and he seems to whiny and boring. I mean, the part where he's preaching to them (and nearly says, "Why can't we all get along?"), and some jerks above him push a giant rock onto his head, I was not just shocked that they've become savages like that, but I was also feeling a bit of contradiction because I was hoping someone would do that to him anyway.
 I'm supposed to feel totally shocked by the story, how these school kids have become the epitomy of evil. When they kill Piggy and Simon, they're shown as being shocked and saddened. They're not supposed to care (except for Piggy and Ralph). And the boar's head is just not as scary as it should be. I mean, I didn't even read the book and I was disappointed.
On a positive note, it's not a BAD film. By the end, I was kinda feeling depressed, which was probably what the director had aimed for. When they killed Piggy, I was hoping someone would just kill those pricks who did it. The ending is too short, but the visions we see, with the forest on fire, and everyone chasing Ralph, who has almost no chance of survivial except for a little part of deux ex machina, totally bowled me over. It was absolutely mesmerizing and almost redeems the film from a truly bad rating. And the cinematography is gorgeous, but seems too much like a film for the rotary travelogue.
This film is wrongly modernized. The kids swear and talk about "Alf" (why, in god's name, ALF?!), and there are planes and choppers, and they're very early American instead of post-war Brits. What is the point of this?  This modernization just weakens the story, because even in 1990 there were kids killing kids in our very American streets. The scary part of this book is it was written in the 50s and predicted what would be happening now. This is just like some "Classics Illustrated" type of spiel, for the kids who don't want to read the book since there's a movie version of it. And it's only 90 minutes long, so it will cut down some hours of reading.
But trust me, kids, pick up the damn book and read it, 'cause it's probably much better than this. But if, like me, you're bored, and it's on TV somewhere, it's worth a viewing, I guess.
MY RATING (out of 4): **
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Turbo Intruder is a Burp Suite extension for sending large numbers of HTTP requests and analyzing the results. It's intended to complement Burp Intruder by handling attacks that require extreme speed or complexity. The following features set it apart:
- Fast - Turbo Intruder uses a HTTP stack hand-coded from scratch with speed in mind. As a result, on many targets it can seriously outpace even fashionable asynchronous Go scripts.
- Flexible - Attacks are configured using Python. This enables handling of complex requirements such as signed requests and multi-step attack sequences. Also, the custom HTTP stack means it can handle malformed requests that break other libraries.
- Scalable - Turbo Intruder can achieve flat memory usage, enabling reliable multi-day attacks. It can also be run in headless environments via the command line.
- Convenient - Boring results can be automatically filtered out by an advanced diffing algorithm adapted from Backslash Powered Scanner
On the other hand it's undeniably harder to use, and the network stack isn't as reliable and battle-tested as core Burp's.
Basic use
To use it, simply highlight the area you want to inject over, then right click and 'Send to Turbo Intruder'. This will open a window containing a Python snippet which you can customise before launching the attack.
For full usage instructions, please refer to the documentation.
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Describes a protein profile Hidden Markov Model. Optional parameters:
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all_layers A list of layers including start and start_insertion |
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consensus Consensus sequence |
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dssp DSSP (calculated) secondary structure |
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dssp_solvent Solvent accessibility values |
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effective_matches Number of effective matches (NEFF) |
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end Final state (at the end layer) |
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evd Extreme-value distribution parameters (EVD) |
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family Alternative entry ID (FAM) |
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has_structure True if this profile contains structural data |
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id Profile entry ID (FILE) |
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layers List-like access to the HMM's layers |
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length Profile length |
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logbase Base of the logarithm used for score scaling |
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name Profile name (NAME) |
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psipred PSIPRED (predicted) secondary structure |
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residues List of representative residues, attached to each layer |
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scale Score scaling factor |
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score_units Current score units |
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start Start state (at the start layer) |
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start_insertion Insertion state at the start layer |
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version Format version number (HHsearch) |
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Convert emission and transition scores to the specified units.
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alignmentSource multiple alignment
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consensusConsensus sequence
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effective_matchesNumber of effective matches (NEFF)
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nameProfile name (NAME)
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residuesList of representative residues, attached to each layer
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scaleScore scaling factor
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Before Change
preprocessor = FeaturesPreprocessor()
features_batch = [[[FEATURE_VALUE_1, FEATURE_VALUE_2]]]
features_transformed = preprocessor.fit_transform(features_batch)
LOGGER.debug("features_transformed: %s", features_transformed)
LOGGER.debug("features_transformed.shape: %s", features_transformed.shape)
assert features_transformed.shape == (1, 1, 2)
assert all_close(features_transformed, [[[1, 1]]])
def test_should_transform_unseen_to_zero(self):
After Change
def test_should_fit_multiple_single_value_features(self):
preprocessor = FeaturesPreprocessor()
features_batch = [[[FEATURE_VALUE_1, FEATURE_VALUE_2]]]
features_transformed, features_length = preprocessor.fit_transform(features_batch)
assert features_length == 2
assert all_close(features_transformed, [[[1, 1]]])


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What is the (minutes= (tiptime - nLockTime) / 60) >= (KOMODO_MAXMEMPOOLTIME/60) check for? Do I need to implement this.
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There a re a few checks for tiptime != 0. What are these for? Do I ned to implement them?
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- calcMask() - Method in class ISP.IP
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Converts the mask from CIDR to DDN (Dotted Decimal Netmask).
- calcMask() - Method in class model.IP
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Converts the mask from CIDR to DDN (Dotted Decimal Netmask).
- clearWindow() - Method in class view.GUI
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- cli - Variable in class main.Main
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- CLI - Class in view
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- CLI(ModelNetwork, ControllerNetwork) - Constructor for class view.CLI
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- CLI.ReadInput - Class in view
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- Client - Class in socket
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- Client(int, String) - Constructor for class socket.Client
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- closeConnection() - Method in class ISP.ISP
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- closeConnection() - Method in class socket.Client
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Closes all the connections (in, out, socket).
- confirm(String) - Method in class view.CLI
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Asks to the users to confirm his input
- connect(int) - Method in class ISP.ISP
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Connect the server
- connect(int, String) - Method in class socket.Client
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Connect to the ISP server.
- contentPane - Variable in class view.GUI
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- controlCLI - Variable in class main.Main
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- controlGUI - Variable in class main.Main
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- controller - package controller
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- controller - Variable in class view.ViewNetwork
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- ControllerNetwork - Class in controller
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- ControllerNetwork(ModelNetwork) - Constructor for class controller.ControllerNetwork
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Constructor of Controller.
- createGUI(int, int, int) - Method in class view.GUI
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Creates the main part and configuration of the GUI.
- createJTable(ArrayList<Subnet>) - Method in class view.GUI
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Creates a JTable and fills it with an ArrayList of Subnet Objects
- createNetwork(String, int) - Method in class controller.ControllerNetwork
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Requests the creation of a network to the model
- createNetwork(String, int) - Method in class model.ModelNetwork
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Creates the network requested and stores it.
- csv - package csv
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- CSV - Class in csv
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- CSV() - Constructor for class csv.CSV
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Sinusoidal Steering¶
Simulation of a simple vehicle with sinusoidal steering actuation.
First, we choose the tire and vehicle models.
TireModel = TirePacejka(); % Choosing tire
System = VehicleSimpleNonlinear(); % Choosing vehicle
The system is completely defined once we attribute the chosen tire model to the vehicle object.
System.tire = TireModel;
The friction coefficient between the tire and the road can be set as
System.muy = 1.0;
After this, we define the simulation time span
T = 4; % Total simulation time [s]
resol = 50; % Resolution
TSPAN = 0:T/resol:T; % Time span [s]
We want to simulate the model with an open loop sinusoidal steering input. So, since we have the time span, we can create an array with the value of the steering angle for each simulated instants.
System.deltaf = 1*pi/180*sin(T^-1*2*pi*TSPAN);
The steering input over time can be plotted with
f1 = figure(1);
grid on ; box on;
plot(TSPAN,180/pi*System.deltaf)
xlabel('time [s]')
ylabel('Steering angle [deg]')
The resulting plot is illustrated below
To define a simulation object (Simulator
) the arguments must be the vehicle object and the time span. This is,
simulator = Simulator(System, TSPAN);
No simulation parameters need to be altered. So, we have everything needed to run the simulation. For this, we use
simulator.Simulate();
The resulting time response of each state is stored in separate variables:
XT = simulator.XT;
YT = simulator.YT;
PSI = simulator.PSI;
VEL = simulator.VEL;
ALPHAT = simulator.ALPHAT;
dPSI = simulator.dPSI;
Frame and animation can be generated defining a graphic object (Graphics
). The only argument of the graphic object is the simulator object after the simulation.
g = Graphics(simulator);
To change the color of the vehicle run
g.TractorColor = 'r';
To generate the frame/animation with a different horizontal and vertical scale run
g.Frame('scalefig',3);
g.Animation('scalefig',3);
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# coding=utf-8
"""Log processors."""
# Copyright (c) 2018 Stefan Braun
#
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
# a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
# the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
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# OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
# THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR
# OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
# ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
# OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
import time
from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
from pathlib import Path
from typing import List
from queue import Queue
from threading import Event
import concurrent
from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
from loguru import logger
# pylint: disable=too-few-public-methods
[docs]class LogProcessor(ABC):
"""Process one or more logs."""
# pylint: disable=too-many-instance-attributes
logfiles: List[Path]
triggers: List[str]
cancel: Event
log_queue: Queue
start_clean: bool
filtered: bool
verbose: bool
def __init__(
self,
log_files: List[Path],
triggers: List[str],
log_queue: Queue,
cancel: Event,
history: bool,
encoding: str,
tailing: bool = False
):
"""Initialize instance.
:param log_files: list of logfiles to parse.
:type log_files: List[Path]
:param triggers: search the logfiles for these triggers.
:type triggers: List[str]
:param log_queue: deliver filtered lines in this queue.
:type log_queue: Queue
:param cancel: trigger to cancel logfile processing.
:type cancel: Event
:param history: parse historic log items.
:type history: bool
:param encoding: encoding of logfile.
:type encoding: str
:param tailing: True to keep reading after eof, waiting for more data.
:type tailing: bool
"""
self.logfiles = log_files
self.triggers = triggers
self.log_queue = log_queue
self.cancel = cancel
self.verbose = False
self.start_clean = not history
self.filtered = True
self.encoding = encoding
self.tailing = tailing
if self.verbose:
logger.info(
"{}({}) Triggers: {}", self.__class__.__name__, log_files, triggers
)
[docs] @abstractmethod
def run(self):
"""Process log files."""
def _predicate(self, line: str):
"""Check line for triggers."""
for trigger in self.triggers:
if trigger in line:
return True
return False
@logger.catch
def _process_logfile(self, logfile: Path, keep_tailing: bool):
"""Process one logfile.
:param logfile: the log file to process.
:type logfile: Path
:param keep_tailing: true to keep waiting for more data at eof.
:type keep_tailing: bool
"""
logger.trace("--> {}.process_logfile({})", self.__class__.__name__, logfile)
if not logfile.exists():
logger.warning("log {} not found -->", logfile)
return
try:
with logfile.open("r", encoding=self.encoding) as f_in:
if self.start_clean:
# read and drop existing lines
logger.info("{}({}) drop history", self.__class__.__name__, logfile)
f_in.readlines()
while True:
if self.cancel.is_set():
logger.trace(
"{}({}) canceled -->", self.__class__.__name__, logfile
)
return
for line in f_in.readlines():
line = line.strip()
logger.trace("Read: >{}<", line)
if not self.filtered or self._predicate(line):
logger.trace("Put: >{}<", line)
self.log_queue.put(line)
time.sleep(0.0001)
if not keep_tailing:
logger.trace(
"{}({}) finished -->", self.__class__.__name__, logfile
)
return
time.sleep(1)
except Exception as exc: # pylint: disable=broad-except
logger.error("Processing of logfile {} failed with {}", logfile, exc)
[docs]class SerialProcessor(LogProcessor):
"""Process one log after the other"""
[docs] def run(self):
"""Process one logfile after the other."""
logger.trace("--> SerialProcessor.run({})", self.logfiles)
for logfile in self.logfiles:
self._process_logfile(logfile, False)
[docs]class ParallelProcessor(LogProcessor):
"""Processes all logfiles in parallel."""
[docs] @logger.catch
def run(self):
"""Processes all logfiles in parallel."""
logger.trace("--> ParallelProcessor.run({})", self.logfiles)
num_workers = len(self.logfiles)
if not num_workers:
return
with ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=num_workers) as executor:
future_log = {
executor.submit(self._process_logfile, log, self.tailing): log
for log in self.logfiles
}
logger.info("ParallelProcessor --> workers started: {}", future_log)
for future in concurrent.futures.as_completed(future_log):
log = future_log[future]
try:
future.result()
except Exception as exc: # pylint: disable=broad-except
logger.info("{} generated an exception: {}", log, exc)


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Computes the third multivariate cumulant of either the raw, centered or standardized data. Computes the main measures of multivariate skewness, together with their bootstrap distributions. Finally, computes the least skewed linear projections of the data.
| Version: | 1.1.1 |
| Depends: | MaxSkew |
| Published: | 2017-06-24 |
| Author: | Cinzia Franceschini, Nicola Loperfido |
| Maintainer: | Cinzia Franceschini <cinziafranceschini at msn.com> |
| License: | GPL-2 |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| CRAN checks: | MultiSkew results |
| Reference manual: | MultiSkew.pdf |
| Package source: | MultiSkew_1.1.1.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: MultiSkew_1.1.1.zip, r-release: MultiSkew_1.1.1.zip, r-oldrel: MultiSkew_1.1.1.zip |
| OS X binaries: | r-release: MultiSkew_1.1.1.tgz, r-oldrel: MultiSkew_1.1.1.tgz |
| Old sources: | MultiSkew archive |
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The NITK-IEEE Computer Society community intends to explore and contribute to the rapidly evolving world of computer technologies by carrying out research and projects in the broad domains of computer science in the form of 3 research groups :
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Projects - 2018
Learning to Communicate in Multi-Agent Systems
We are exploring the application of Reinforcement Learning in Multi-Agent systems to learn communication protocols. We are using value-based and policy-based models to learn emergent communication protocols in competitive and collaborative environments. We also plan to study the applicability of these learning methods on real world problems, like communication in a swarm of autonomous vehicles.
Open Answering System
This project aims to build a model to answer open-domain questions by implementing document retrieval and machine comprehension using Wikipedia as the only source of information. It combines a search component based on bigram hashing and TF-IDF matching with a multi-layer recurrent neural network model trained to detect answers in Wikipedia paragraphs. The project will further be extended to build a closed domain answering system using NCERT textbooks as the only knowledge source.
CP Judge
A functional, robust and secure platform for hosting our own competitive programming contests which should be able to compile and test the submitted code against previously given test cases. Submitted code would be run with restrictions, including time limit, memory limit, and address other security concerns in sandboxed containers. It is a scalable distributed system to support varied load and hence, should be fault tolerant and resilient to prevent cascading failures.
ROP Compiler
The aim of this project is to write a Compiler which automates the ROP(Return Oriented Programming) exploit generation. Instead of writing payload by hand, the compiler does it for you.
The project is roughly divided into the following parts.
- Collect all ROP Gadgets from the vulnerable software and store it in a database.
- Convert gadgets into IR, extract their meanings probably by using constraint solvers or with the help of Symbolic Execution.
- Chain the gadgets to get the exploit function provided.
Secure Set Intersection using Secure Multi-Party Communication
A secure set intersection protocol between sender S and receiver R on respective inputs X and Y s.t. |X|,|Y| ≤ n, allows R to learn X ∩Y while S learns nothing about R’s inputs. We aim to implement and test one such protocol using oblivious transfer.
Quantum Algorithms
This project aims to understand the concepts of quantum computation, especially quantum gates and implement few of the popular quantum algorithms - Shor’s algorithm and Grover’s search algorithm. Shor's algorithm finds the prime factors of an integer in polynomial time on a quantum computer. Grover's search algorithm is a quantum algorithm for searching an unsorted database with quadratic speedup over classical algorithm. These algorithms will be implemented in IBM Q Experience.
Neural Voice Cloning
This project aims to build an application that will require few audio samples of the user as input and then using the speaker adaptation technique of voice cloning, will be able to read aloud a paragraph in the recorded voice.Speaker adaptation is based on fine-tuning a multi-speaker generative model with a few cloning samples. In terms of naturalness of the speech and its similarity to original speaker, this method can achieve good performance with better naturalness and similarity, even with very few cloning audios.
NLQ to SQL
In this project we aim to develop a model which when given a natural language query, will generate the SQL query for the same given the metadata about the database.
A lot of approaches have been used to tackle the problem including the traditional sequence to sequence model which is pretty generalised and doesn’t make use of the full structure of the SQL queries. Hence a new approach which uses sequence to set along with column attention was proposed to address the previous problems. We will use deep learning techniques like RNN and specifically LSTM to encode the input questions and build more deep neural networks on top of these encodings to predict the SQL queries.
Parallelizing Graph Colouring
The project aims to explore different ways and approaches to graph colouring in parallel and achieving a good speedup with respect to current heuristics proposed till date, and predict a chromatic number of the graph which has a reasonable relative error.


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A professional jazz upright-bassist from the age of 13, I spent my teens and early twenties touring around the world. At the age of 22, fresh out of Juilliard with a M.M. and having performed at jazz clubs and festivals all around the world, it was obvious what I needed to do next.
I needed to become a web developer.
Fast forward several years and I’m now building web applications using Ruby on Rails and JavaScript.
Feel free to contact me. I'd love to hear from you!
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--- title: submodule for Exploratary data analytics keywords: fastai sidebar: home_sidebar summary: "API details." description: "API details." nb_path: "02_EDA.ipynb" ---
say_hello_EDA('ashish')
assert say_hello_EDA("Ashish")=='hello there Ashish - EDA'


Hi <user's name goes here>,
Secret Santa
is back again this year!
You have been chosen to gift
@<receiver's name goes here>
something he/she would like to receive! This is a secret only shared with you!
Someone has also been chosen to get you a gift. Here
is a message from the Secret Santa admin:
{{textarea.value}}
For any info/query contact your Secret Santa admin:
@{{userData.full_name}}


{% extends "resume/position_form.html" %} {% block title %}{{ block.super }} - Delete Position{% endblock %} {% block resume_body_head %} {% with position=object %}


Joint Commission standards are the basis of an objective evaluation process that can help health care organizations measure, assess and improve performance. The standards focus on important patient, individual, or resident care and organization functions that are essential to providing safe, high quality care.
Leadership (LD)
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Environment of Care (EC)
Emergency Management (EM)
The Cleary Act
In 1990, Congress enacted the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990 (Title II of Public Law 101-542), which amended the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA). This act required all post-secondary institutions participating in HEA’s Title IV student financial assistance programs to disclose campus crime statistics and security information. The act was amended in 1992, 1998, 2000 and 2008. The 1998 amendments renamed the law the Jeanne Cleary Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act in memory of a student who was slain in her dorm room in 1986. It is generally referred to as the Cleary Act and is in section 485(f) of the HEA.
ASIS Guidelines provides Physical Security Professionals with a comprehensive selection of documents;
This is in response to a concerted need for guidelines regarding security issues in the United States
By addressing specific concerns and issues inherent to security professionals, security guidelines will better serve the needs of security professionals by increasing the effectiveness and productivity of security practices and solutions, as well as enhance the professionalism of the industry
ASIS Standards
ASIS Standard and Guideline publications are developed through a voluntary consensus standards development process. This process brings together volunteers and /or seeks out the views of persons who have an interest in the topic covered by the publication.
These Standards provide current processes that support appropriate awareness, prevention, preparation, and response to changes in threat conditions.
Standards are structured at a high level, although specific considerations and responses are also addressed for consideration by individual organization based on identifiable risk and requirements
NERC & FERC
On the federal level, 2016 has seen the release of updated Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) requirements by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the non-profit empowered by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) with authority to oversee grid security. The CIP plan is a set of nine standards and some 45 requirements that cover a broad variety of cybersecurity protocols. Under the CIP plan, utilities are required to identify critical cyber assets and ensure they are protected by electronic security measures, such as encryption and two-factor authentication. They must develop plans for incident reporting and recovery, and train personnel on response plans. The CIP standards even govern physical security measures, such as security guards and visitor logs.


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| builtwith.jsx | 0% | 0/8 | 100% | 0/0 | 0% | 0/2 | 0% | 0/6 | |
| clock.jsx | 0% | 0/10 | 0% | 0/2 | 0% | 0/2 | 0% | 0/10 | |
| description.jsx | 0% | 0/10 | 0% | 0/2 | 0% | 0/2 | 0% | 0/8 | |
| experience.jsx | 0% | 0/12 | 100% | 0/0 | 0% | 0/1 | 0% | 0/10 | |
| footer.jsx | 0% | 0/6 | 100% | 0/0 | 0% | 0/1 | 0% | 0/5 | |
| hero.jsx | 100% | 8/8 | 100% | 0/0 | 100% | 2/2 | 100% | 8/8 | |
| navbar.jsx | 37.5% | 3/8 | 100% | 0/0 | 0% | 0/2 | 37.5% | 3/8 | |
| profile-image.jsx | 66.67% | 2/3 | 100% | 0/0 | 0% | 0/1 | 66.67% | 2/3 | |
| profile.jsx | 50% | 1/2 | 100% | 0/0 | 0% | 0/1 | 50% | 1/2 | |
| projects.jsx | 0% | 0/16 | 0% | 0/2 | 0% | 0/2 | 0% | 0/16 | |
| section-header.jsx | 0% | 0/10 | 100% | 0/0 | 0% | 0/2 | 0% | 0/8 | |
| shapes.jsx | 37.5% | 3/8 | 100% | 0/0 | 0% | 0/4 | 37.5% | 3/8 | |
| social.jsx | 0% | 0/3 | 100% | 0/0 | 0% | 0/2 | 0% | 0/3 | |
| techskills.jsx | 0% | 0/13 | 0% | 0/2 | 0% | 0/1 | 0% | 0/13 | |
| tools.jsx | 0% | 0/9 | 0% | 0/2 | 0% | 0/1 | 0% | 0/9 |


For faster sex annotation, the number keys or a keypad can be used. The numbers 8, 9, and 0 are mapped to the corresponding sexes Unknown, Female, Male. The letters 'u', 'f', and 'm' are also mapped to the corresponding sexes Unknown, Female, Male.
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We attend to the total product life cycle and it's hygiene from sourcing to marketing to distribution through our distribution channels consisting:
1. Modern Trade.
2. General Trade.
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4. Wholesalers.
5. Mini Markets.
6. Hotels.
We have the capacity to convert the need of the product for consumer into delivery, and all of that is achieved through our marketing techniques which consists of the following:
1. Performing Market visits.
2. Mouth to mouth communication.
3. Previous sales data analysis.
4. Surveys.
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2. A private network of 10 pcs.
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