There’s a story that pops up in my twitter feed every 6 months or so. The original version of it is from a Gamasutra article published in 2013 which contained a collection of stories of various “dirty” tricks used in previous games (link). There’s a lot of fun stories in the article but one stands head and shoulders above the rest in terms of awesomeness. I’ve copied the specific story below so that this post makes sense even in the unlikely event of the original link going dead.
Suffice to say that this story is not an example of what modern day game development is like, but I think that’s what makes it so appealing. Most of my day at work is spent sorting out problems in huge codebases made up of abstractions layered over other abstractions layered over third party libraries and legacy code. This is the polar opposite of that, and I want to get me some of it. So this is the story of how I recreated this on OS X.
I want to caveat the entire article by saying that this post is going to contain a lot of terrible assembly. I hadn’t written much assembly before I started this project and I’m sure it shows. That being said, let’s get started!
The first thing that jumped out at me in this story was the part about sending machine code over the network to be executed by the game. It had never occurred to me that this was possible, despite it being obvious in hindsight. With some help from this article, I was able to prove that this was going to work on OS X too. First I wrote a quick bit of assembly (in this case, enough to call exit(42):
.text
.globl _main
_main:
mov $42, %di
movl $0x2000001, %eax
syscall
Assembled it with OS X’s built in “as” tool, and disassembled it with objdump to get the hex machine code bytes:
1ff5: 66 bf 2a 00 movw $42, %di
1ff9: b8 01 00 00 02 movl $33554433, %eax
1ffe: 0f 05 syscall
Then I copied those bytes to a string and tried to run it:
int main(void)
{
char* code = "\x66\xbf\x2a\x00\xb8\x01\x00\x00\x02\x0f\x05";
((void(*)())code)();
return 0;
}
The above returns the value 42 and the “return 0” statement never gets executed, which is cool. However, this wasn’t enough to prove anything because it only worked when the code string was a constant. Trying to copy that string to a different (non-constant) buffer and then execute the instructions there failed immediately:
int main(void)
{
char* code = "\x66\xbf\x2a\x00\xb8\x01\x00\x00\x02\x0f\x05";
char buff[256];
memcpy(buff, code, 256);
((void(*)())buff)(); // will fail with EXC_BAD_ACCESS
return 0;
}
As it turns out, OS X has memory protections to help prevent folks from doing these sorts of shenaningans. If you compile on the command line with the arguments “-Wl,-allow_stack_execute”, clang will happily let this code run just fine. In fact, that argument will allow the above code to work whether or not buff is on the stack, the bss section, or the data section.
Note that no matter what I did, I couldn’t get Xcode 10 to recognize that compiler flag, it had to be command line. It’s also important to note that if you compile objective-c code (or objective-c++) with this flag, the flag won’t work. I could be missing something, but I got bored and just fell back to the command line / plain C++ instead of continuing to fight with it.
The Playstation 2 was gone well before I entered the industry, but based on googling and asking a few coworkers who had some experience on it, it seems unlikely that the ps2 had the same kind of memory security, so I don’t feel too bad about disabling OS X’s to get this project done.
My next goal was to use a buffer overflow to redirect a function pointer to a buffer that I controlled. I’d never intentionally overflowed a buffer before, but boy do I have experience tracking and fixing memory stomps, so this felt pretty natural (in theory). In practice it was a bit messier. Consider the following code:
void hello();
static char buff[32];
static void(*targetFunc)();
int main(int argc, const char** argv)
{
targetFunc = hello;
gets(buff);
targetFunc();
return 0;
}
void hello()
{
printf("Hello World\n");
}
While this code will absolutely crash, it’s not guaranteed that the compiler has positioned the static variables in the bss section of our executable in the same order that they appear in the code. In my case, they were actually located in the opposite order in my executable, as you can see in this snippet of Hopper output.
__ZL10targetFunc: // targetFunc
0000000100001020 dq 0x0000000000000000 ; DATA XREF=_main+29, _main+52
0000000100001028 db 0x00 ; '.'
0000000100001029 db 0x00 ; '.'
000000010000102a db 0x00 ; '.'
000000010000102b db 0x00 ; '.'
000000010000102c db 0x00 ; '.'
000000010000102d db 0x00 ; '.'
000000010000102e db 0x00 ; '.'
000000010000102f db 0x00 ; '.'
__ZL4buff: // buff
0000000100001030 db 0x00 ; '.' ; DATA XREF=_main+36
0000000100001031 db 0x00 ; '.'
0000000100001032 db 0x00 ; '.'
0000000100001033 db 0x00 ; '.'
; (buff continues below)
Unluckily, this means that try as I might, I couldn’t use the gets() call to change the value of the targetFunc pointer. After a bit of experimentation, I found that (at least for my trivial example), Clang places variables in the bss section in the order they’re encountered in code, so rewriting the code to assign to buff before the gets() call sorted things out (example below).
void hello()
{
printf("Hello World\n");
}
static char buff[32];
static void(*targetFunc)();
int main(int argc, const char** argv)
{
buff[0] = 'c';
targetFunc = hello;
gets(buff);
targetFunc();
return 0;
}
Of course, all of the above only holds true if both variables are located in the same section in the executable. If, for example, targetFunc was initialized when it was declared, like so:
static void(*targetFunc)() = hello;
It would be placed in the data section of the executable instead of the bss section (since it has an initial value). This doesn’t preclude me from overflowing (I don’t think), but it does mean that I also have to worry about the order that the compiler places the bss section and the data section in the executable. This seemed like more hassle than it was worth for the purposes of this project so I just kept everything in bss all the time.
It seemed like the above code made it possible for a properly crafted input string to overflow and write a new address into the function pointer, so I decided to give that a shot. The address of buff in my executable was 0x0000000100001020. In order to be able to enter this value to gets(), it needed to be converted to ascii. A lot of that address is zero bytes, which don’t have an ascii character associated with it, so I had to enter them in terminal by pressing control+space instead. The non zero bytes are 01, 10, and 20, two of which are non printable characters that I ended up copy and pasting from a website so that I didn’t have to figure out how to type them. The last one, 20, is the space character (‘ ‘). In terminal, it looked like this (note the space character at the end):
AAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAABB^@^@^@^A^@^@^P
Copying and pasting the above string is not the same as actually pasting in the ascii characters for bytes 01 and 10, this is just how terminal decided to display that those characters were entered.
In addition to being annoying to enter, this didn’t work because I had forgotten about endianness, and needed to rearrange this input so that the address was specified as a little-endian value. Figuring that out took longer than I’m willing to admit to in a blog post. The correct string looked like this:
AAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAABB ^P^@^@^A^@^@^@
Finally though, I could demonstrably (using lldb to print the address of targetFunc) use a buffer overflow to set a pointer. Sadly, if I tried the same trick without lldb attached, things failed horribly. It turns out OS X had one more security feature up it’s sleeve to stall my plan of creating the world’s most insecure application.
ASLR, or Address Space Layout Randomization, is a security technique that rearranges the locations of key areas of an executable’s data, including (at least on OS X Mojave) the .bss section. This means that every time I ran the test application without lldb attached, the address of the character buffer was randomized.
The concept of ASLR was first published in 2001, and first used in a “mainstream” OS in 2003 (according to wikipedia at least). Given that the PS2 was launched in 2000, I’m relatively confident that there was nothing like this on our story’s hardware. I also found this presentation about game console security which suggests that ASLR didn’t make an appearance on Sony consoles until the PS4. This means that just like before, I can feel good about simply disabling this security feature on my executable. This is accomplished by another clang flag, “-Wl,-no_pie”, where pie refers to “position indepent executables.” Unlike earlier however, this flag can be enabled in an Xcode project, you just need to go to your build settings and enable the setting “Generate Position-Dependent Executable.”
Compiling with that flag gave me a lovely little binary which kept the buff variable at the same memory address all the time.
Now that I was properly redirecting the targetFunc pointer to my buffer, it seemed like the next step was to actually write some code into that buffer to execute. To keep things simple, I started out by reusing the code string that called exit(42) earlier. Unfortunately, a lot of the hex values in my code string couldn’t be represented in ascii at all, so I decided to abandon using gets() and wrote a small python server to pass the code string to my program over a socket. I was going to need to do this eventually anyway so this felt like progress.
import socket
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
address = ('localhost', 10002)
s.bind(address)
s.listen(1)
while True:
connection, addr = s.accept()
connection.send(b"\x66\xbf\x2a\x00\xb8\x01\x00\x00\x02\x0f\x05\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x50\x10\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00")
This also meant making my example program a bit more complicated:
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <cstring>
#include <stdio.h>
static char buff[32];
static void(*targetFunc)();
void hello()
{
printf("Hello World\n");
}
int main(void)
{
buff[0]='c';
targetFunc = hello;
const int SERVER_PORT = 10002;
const char* SERVER_ADDRESS = "<IP_ADDRESS>";
const int BUFF_LEN = 64;
struct sockaddr_in sockAddr = {0};
sockAddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
sockAddr.sin_port = htons(SERVER_PORT);
inet_pton(AF_INET, SERVER_ADDRESS, &sockAddr.sin_addr);
int socketHandle = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
connect(socketHandle, (struct sockaddr*)&sockAddr, sizeof(sockAddr));
recv(socketHandle, &buff, BUFF_LEN, 0);
targetFunc();
return 0;
}
Running this totally worked as long as I had disabled aslr. I stopped here to celebrate by becoming bored with the project and abandoning it for a month.
Downloading and executing assembly code was already pretty awesome, but given that my end goal was to be able to patch a game using this system, it seemed like it would be way cooler if I could use that assembly to fix bugs in different parts of the program. I’d already used mprotect to mark pages as Read/Write protected in other project (for tracking memory stomps), so it wasn’t a huge stretch to use it to mark pages as executable instead. I still wrote a small test program to make sure it worked.
When running in debug, the code below will return 0 instead of 42, because it modifies the shouldExit42() function to return false. Clang will optimize away the memcpy operation if you compile above -O0, but that didn’t really matter to me because, in the real project, I was going to be hand writing the assembly to do this.
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <memory>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdint.h>
bool shouldExit42()
{
return true;
}
bool shouldNotExit42()
{
return false;
}
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
int64_t pagesize = getpagesize();
uint8_t* should = (uint8_t*)&shouldExit42;
uint8_t* shouldNot = (uint8_t*)&shouldNotExit42;
int64_t shouldPageAddr = pagesize * (int64_t(should)/pagesize);
uint8_t* shouldPage = (uint8_t*)shouldPageAddr;
mprotect(shouldPage, pagesize, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC|PROT_WRITE);
memcpy(should,shouldNot, 64);
return shouldExit42() ? 42 : 0;
}
Now, technically the above code is relying on undefined behaviour because the POSIX standard specifies that the behaviour of mprotect is undefined unless it’s operating on an mmap’d pointer, but OS X Mojave seems happy to just do what I want this way. Also, the 64 byte size in the memcpy call is total garbage that I pulled out of the air, but it was good enough for the test program.
One caveat to patching code this way is that any changes need to keep the target function the same size, since this won’t move around the rest of functions in memory (and I don’t even want to think about trying that). Alternatively, it’s possible to add entirely new functions, assuming there’s memory available to store it. I already kinda did this above when I stored assembly code in a buffer and executed it there, so I’m not going to belabour the point any more.
Finally, I felt like I knew enough to try out actually recreating the gamasutra story in a real project, and I built a small game to use as the target executable. I started out with a tile matching game that used metal for graphics, but got tired of fighting with making -allow_stack_execute work in a project that included objective-c code, so I scrapped that and built a quick snake game with ncurses. The game sucks, but that’s not really the point, so as you’re reading, you could try to pretend that I’m talking about some totally awesome AAA project instead if it helps.
The (awful) code is up on github here. Most of it doesn’t matter, but a few bits are relevant to this blog post. First is how I’ve set up a few key static vars:
static char eula[1024];
static void(*packetHandler)();
static int randomSeed;
int main()
{
memset(eula,0,EULA_LEN);
randomSeed = 42;
packetHandler = handleNotificationPacket;
//rest of code omitted
Clang is going to position these static variables in the bss section in the order they’re first encountered when parsing code (or at least, that’s what it did in all my tests), so any attempt to overwrite the packetHandler pointer by overflowing the eula buffer also needed to stomp on whatever value is stored in randomSeed. Part of my payload’s job was going to be making sure that the randomSeed value was set back to 42 before it got used by the game.
The game starts by downloading data from a server and strcpying it into the EULA buffer. Immediately after the server sends the EULA, it’s also going to send the packet that will trigger a call to the packetHandler() function. I couldn’t do squat until I got packetHandler pointed to the eula buffer, so that’s the first thing I did. This was a little trickier than the last time I used an overflow to set a pointer because now the machine code was getting strcpy’d, meaning it couldn’t contain any null bytes. Initially though, this didn’t matter, since I just wanted to set the packetHandler pointer (which was at<PHONE_NUMBER>0092b0), and being little-endian means that I only actually needed to write the value 0x92b0.
Put together, this initial step looked like so:
Since it’s a bit long, I won’t show the python I used to do this here, but if you’re interested, you can check it out here.
That part was pretty easy, but once it was working, the game would immediately crash when it received the packet triggered a call to packetHandler() since there was nothing of value in the EULA buffer. This kinda sucked, so my next step was to have the EULA buffer actually do something. As a proof of concept, I started by re-purposing the exit(42) code string that I used earlier. The original code string had a few null bytes in it though, so it needed some massaging. As a refresher, here was the original bit of machine code:
\x66\xbf\x2a\x00\xb8\x01\x00\x00\x02\x0f\x05
Luckily the original code could be refactored pretty simple to work around the problem. I just added a few unnecessary math operations to avoid needing any instructions with null bytes in them:
.text
.globl _main
_main:
mov $25400, %di
sub $25358, %di
mov $0x2, %al
shl $24, %eax
add $0x1, %al
syscall
Assembling this with as and using objdump to get me the hex bytes gave me the following, strcpy friendly, machine code:
\x66\xbf\x38\x63\x66\x81\xef\x0e\x63\xb0\x02\xc1\xe0\x18\x04\x01\x0f\x05
Modifying the python server script to send this was just a matter of replacing the first set of \x01 bytes with this code string, and boom, the snake game was returning the value 42 before I had a chance to accept the EULA. This was great, but it didn’t feel like my plan of rewriting assembly to avoid null bytes was going to be very scalable when I tried to do real work. The original story talked about needing to encode/decode instructions to allow null bytes to be sent, so that was my next project.
I don’t know if the team at Insomniac did something more fancy, but for my purposes, all I needed to do was replace all null bytes in my machine code string with 0xCD and write some assembly that walked the bytes of the eula buffer (after strcpy) instances of 0xCD with 0x00. I may have just gotten lucky, but none of the code that I wrote for the rest of this project ever had a problem with a valid 0xCD byte getting accidentally stomped by this.
To get the machine code string for this bit of assembly, I actually just ended up writing it as a separate program and extracting the hex bytes using Hex Fiend
.text
.globl _main
_main:
movabsq $0x1111111111111111, %rax
movabsq $0x1111111111107E26, %rcx
subq %rcx, %rax # result of sub is addr of code after decode block
mov %rax, %rdx
mov $0xFFFF, %dx
sub $0xFFFF, %dx # zero dx without getting a null in machine code
# loop starts here
cmpb $0xCD, (%rax)
jne .+6
subb $0xCD, (%rax)
# jump to here if not == 0xcd
add $0x1, %rax
add $0x1, %dx
cmp $0x3D0, %dx # 1035 bytes total, 59 bytes for bootstrap, decode next 976 bytes
jb .-21
# int $3 # uncomment to break in debugger here
ret # end bootstrap
Getting this working was a lot of trial and error (mostly because I hadn’t written much assembly before). I also got tripped up for awhile because I was originally messing with some caller save registers and not cleaning them up, which caused weird problems later. Also, I couldn’t get labels working with the code I was sending over the wire, so I was stuck with jmp-ing to addresses. Jmp-ing to an absolute address seemed to work if I provided an address in a register, but apparently conditional jumps REQUIRE a relative address, which was a pain.
If you’re trying something like this on your own, My standard workflow was to put a breakpoint on the eula buffer, sprinkle my assembly liberally with int $3 calls (which cause the debugger to break there), and then examine the memory of the target buffer with an lldb command like “memory read –size 1 –format x 0x92b0 –count 1024”.
Despite all my complaining though, it did work once I had ironed out all the kinks, which meant it was time to actually do something interesting to the snake game.
The first thing I wanted to do was change some code that shipped with the game. In this case, I wanted to change the point value for hitting a target from 3 to 15. The score value for a target was hardcoded in the code snippet below, so changing it required modifying currently loaded machine code, just like I did in the sample project earlier.
void SnakeGame::tick()
{
if (currentMode == PLAYING)
{
inputMutex.lock();
Point newHead = {snakeSegments.front().x + velocity.x, snakeSegments.front().y + velocity.y};
inputMutex.unlock();
if (newHead.x == targetPos.x && newHead.y == targetPos.y)
{
score+=3;
//rest of code omitted because it isnt important
It was time to fire up Hopper again, this time to figure out the address of this instruction. The tick function itself is located at address<PHONE_NUMBER>004100 (as shown below). Working from there, the first add $0x3 instruction (which turned out to be the correct one) is located at 4199.
The page that contains the tick function starts at<PHONE_NUMBER>004000, so thats the address I’m going to feed to memcpy. On Mac, memcpy is system call 200004A, so the assembly to mark this page as PROT_READ + PROT_WRITE + PROT_EXEC looked like the following:
_markpage:
movl $0x200004A, %eax # 4A is the mprotect syscall
movabsq $0x0000000000004000, %rdi # first arg is page addr, this is the addr of tick
movq $4096, %rsi # second arg is len, we want 1 page
movq $7, %rdx # third arg is flags
syscall
If you’re unfamiliar with how system calls work on mac, you may want to read this article, which was extremely helpful when I was figuring all this out.
After marking the page as writeable, all that I needed to do was to modify the byte at address 0x000000000000419B, which was the byte containing the score value for the target that was hardcoded into the add instruction. Changing that from 3 to 15 just required a move:
_fixscore:
movabsq $0x000000000000419B, %rax # move location of score add instruction to rax
movb $0x0F, (%rax)
Similarly, I also took this time to write 42 back to our random seed variable:
_randomseed:
movabsq $0x00000000000096b0, %rax
movq $42, (%rax) # write 42 back to the random seed var
I should note that I’m providing labels in the assembly snippets above that I didn’t actually have in my assembly code, to aid readability. It’s a bit lengthy to paste right into the article, but my entire assembly payload up to this point looked like this (note the string of nop instructions I used to make reading lldb output easier). By now, manually changing null bytes to 0xCD in the machine code was getting tedious, so I wrote a small script to do that manually. My workflow now looked like this:
I probably should have combined a few more of those steps into a utility program, but it’s a bit late for that now.
At this point, I had successfully managed to change the score value for targets in the game, and was feeling pretty super. However, that wasn’t enough for me to be satisfied that I had actually recreated the entire gamasutra story, so there was still more work to do.
Up to now, when the game displayed the EULA, it ended up displaying garbage bytes, because the eula buffer contained our code string. I wanted to fix that by having the payload include instructions for downloading a real EULA string from the server. The original story also mentioned having the payload download additional data, although technically the it reads like they downloaded more machine code… I’m not going to split hairs.
Setting up a socket connection in assembly isn’t super exciting, given that socket(), connect(), and recvfrom() are all syscalls on OS X, so there’s nothing exotic about it really. I had so far gotten by without allocating any stack variables (and as such, needing to clean those up), so I ended up reserving the last chunk of the eula buffer to use to store the sockaddr structure I was using, but that’s about as weird as it got. I also hardcoded the values of the sockaddr struct (by writing a C program to set it up and just copying the bytes from the sockaddr struct it created) rather than calculating them the normal way to save some time. Setting all this up looked like this:
_SetUpSocket:
movl $0x2000061, %eax # 61 is socket
movq $2, %rdi # first socket arg - AF_INET
movq $1, %rsi # second socket arg - SOCK_STREAM
movq $0, %rdx # third socket arg - protocol
syscall # call socket, socket handle in eax
movq %rax, %rdi # move socket handle to ebx
movl $0x2000062, %eax # next syscall will be to connect
movabsq $0x00000000000096a1, %rsi
movb $2, (%rsi) # now write the sockaddr bytes
add $1, %rsi
movb $0x27, (%rsi)
add $1, %rsi
movb $0x15, (%rsi)
add $1, %rsi
movq $0x7f, (%rsi)
add $3, %rsi
movq $1, (%rsi)
movabsq $0x00000000000096a0, %rsi # second arg to connect is address of sockaddr struct, located in our buffer (pre-zeroed by bootstrap)
movq $16, %rdx # third arg is len of sockaddr
syscall
Since I wanted to download the new EULA string into the same buffer that the payload code currently lived, I ended up adding a huge string of NOP instructions before calling recvfrom, and limiting the size of the EULA string so that it wouldn’t stomp on instructions that still mattered. So immediately after the code above, there was a long string of 700 NOP instructions before I actually called recvfrom and then returned from the function. This last bit of assembly looked like this:
_downloadeula:
movl $0x200001D, %eax # next syscall will be to recvfrom
movabsq $0x00000000000092b0, %rsi # second arg is address of this buffer
movq $512, %rdx # third arg is len, eula will be up to 512 bytes
movq $0x0, %r10 # fourth arg is flags
movq $0x0, %r8 # fifth arg is socket ptr, use null since we have a connected socket
movq $0x0, %r9 # ignore
syscall
ret
If you’re curious, the entire source for this payload is both here and on the github project that accompanies this blog post. Note that the payload code doesn’t exactly match the code string in the final python server script, since I was manually adding padding and replacing some NOPs with 0xCD, as described earlier.
With this payload in place, getting a proper EULA was just a matter of adding a few more lines to the server script to listen for a connection on port 100005 and send back the string when it received that connection. You can see the final server script here if you’re curious. Once that was working, I could send a EULA that was human readable to the client in time to hide the fact that anything nefarious was going on, and my server was able to modify compiled code using a buffer overflow. Woohoo!
This was a super cool project to work on, despite it occasionally taking a turn for the very tedious. I learned a ton about areas of programming that I had never had a chance to dabbble in before, and feel like I came away from it with a better understanding of how software works in general.
Given how little I knew when I started this, I used a ton of different blog posts and articles to help get me up to speed (in addition to the ones linked explicitly above), and I wanted to list them here in case any are of interest to anyone else. So, in no specific order, here they are:
I also want to link again to Hopper and Hex Fiend which made my life way easier. Hopper in particular is a really impressive bit of software, and I get an excuse to use it again in the future.
If you want to say hi, or ask any questions about anything in the article, I’m available (sporadically) on Twitter! Thanks for reading!


Empathic Agents
A Hybrid Normative/ Consequentialistic Approach
Timotheus Kampik
Umeå University
Agenda
* Motivation
* Design principles
* Empathic equilibria
* Managing inconsistent beliefs
* Ongoing work
* Future work
Motivation
* Complex information systems often optimized towards simple metrics:
``#clicks``, ``#views``
* Challenge: "meet the needs of both the users and the system designers" (Ricci et al.)
* Development of new multi-agent systems concepts to address the problem
Ricci et al. Recommender Systems: Introduction and Challenges. 2015.
Kampik et al. Coercion and Deception in Persuasive Technologies. 2018.
Design Principles
* Be aware of the utility function or beliefs of others
* Maintain "self-other differentiation" (Coplan)
* Be able to comply with rules/norms
* Be limitedly receptive to *utility contagion*
Coplan. Will the Real Empathy Please Stand Up? A Case for a Narrow Conceptualization. 2011.
Stueber. Empathy (The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). 2008.
Empathic Equilibria
* ``n`` agents interact in environment
* Each agent has set of actions it can potentially execute
* All agents act simultaneously; only one specific point in time considered
* Each agent has utility function: maps action combination to numerical value
* All agents are of the same *type* (*i.e.:* empathic) -> find equilibrium
Kampik et al. Empathic Autonomous Agents.
Empathic Equilibria
\[\begin{aligned}
ea_i{}&(\{ u'_0, ..., u'_n \}, \{ Acts_0, ..., Acts_n \}) := \\
{}&equilibria_{po} \gets ne_{po}(\{ u'_0, ..., u'_n \}, \{ Acts_0, ..., Acts_n \}) \\
{}&If \: equilibria_{po} \neq \{ \}: \\
{}&\quad return :\ Acts_i \cap first(equilibria_{po}) \\
{}&Else: \\
{}&\quad return :\ Acts_i \cap first(argmax \: (aggregate(u_{0}, ..., u_{n})))
\end{aligned} \]
Kampik et al. Empathic Autonomous Agents.
Empathic Equilibria
1. Employ acceptability rules: check if an action combination must not be executed
2. Update utility functions accordingly
3. Determine Pareto-optimal Nash equilibria ($NE_{po}$).
4. If $NE_{po}$ exist: Pick $first$ (deterministic) action set in $NE_{po}$.
5. Else: Pick actions that maximize shared utility.
Kampik et al. Empathic Autonomous Agents.
Empathic Equilibria
| Alone |
1 |
4 |
1 |
| Together |
6 |
5 |
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Managing Inconsistent Beliefs
* Agents may initially have inconsistent beliefs about acceptability rules.
Example: recommender system scenario:
```
// System provider agent:
acceptable("Show vodka ad", "Show university ad").
// User agent:
attack("Show vodka ad", "Alcoholic").
```
* Apply formal argumentation (Dung-style), *maximal ideal extension*.
Kampik et al. Implementing Argumentation-enabled Empathic Agents.
Ongoing Work
* Strengthen theoretical foundation, considering recent microeconomic theory (*i.e.*: Richter and Rubinstein)
* Develop frameworks and libraries to facilitate the implementation of empathic agents
* Evaluate empathic agents empirically
Richter and Rubinstein. Normative Equilibrium: The Permissible and the Forbidden as Devices for Bringing Order to Economic Environments.
Kampik and Nieves. JS-son - A Minimal JavaScript BDI Agent Library.
Kampik et al. Explaining Sympathetic Actions of Rational Agents.
Future Work
* Provide a Markovian (temporal) perspective
* Enable learning & management of partial observability
Thank you!
Questions?
*This work was partially supported by the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.*


This is just me messing around with parallax effects.
All images and text borrowed from the internet. I can’t really remember where I found it. I just did a google search. I’m sorry.


Difficult Routes
Time Limit: 5000/2000 MS (Java/Others) Memory Limit: 32768/32768 K (Java/Others)
Total Submission(s): 748 Accepted Submission(s): 125
Problem Description
In preparation for the coming Olympics, you have been asked to propose bicycle training routes for your country’s team. The training committee wants to identify routes for traveling between pairs of locations in multiple sites around
the country. Each route must have a desired level of difficulty based on the steepness of its hills.
You will be given a road map with the elevation data superimposed upon it. Each intersection, where two or more roads meet, is identified by its x- , y- , and z-coordinates. Each road starts and ends at an intersection, is straight, and does not contain bridges
over or tunnels under other roads. The difficulty level, d, of cycling a road is 0 if the road is level or travelled in the downhill direction. The difficulty of a non-level road when travelled in the uphill direction is100*rise
/ run . Here rise is the absolute value of change in elevation and run is the distance between its two intersection points in its horizontal projection to the 2D-plane at elevation zero. Note
that the level of difficulty for cycling a descending road is zero.
A route, which is a sequence of roads such that a successor road continues from the same intersection where its predecessor road finishes, has a level of difficulty d if the maximum level of difficulty for cycling among all its roads equals d. The committee
is also interested in the chosen route between two selected locations, if such a route with the desired difficulty level exists, being the one with the shortest possible distance to travel.
Reminder: The floor function X means X truncated to an integer.
The figure shows a road map with three intersections for the three sample inputs.
The edge labels of the darker shaded surface give the level of difficulty of going up hill. The lighter shaded surface is the horizontal projection to the 2D-plane at elevation zero.
the country. Each route must have a desired level of difficulty based on the steepness of its hills.
You will be given a road map with the elevation data superimposed upon it. Each intersection, where two or more roads meet, is identified by its x- , y- , and z-coordinates. Each road starts and ends at an intersection, is straight, and does not contain bridges
over or tunnels under other roads. The difficulty level, d, of cycling a road is 0 if the road is level or travelled in the downhill direction. The difficulty of a non-level road when travelled in the uphill direction is100*rise
/ run . Here rise is the absolute value of change in elevation and run is the distance between its two intersection points in its horizontal projection to the 2D-plane at elevation zero. Note
that the level of difficulty for cycling a descending road is zero.
A route, which is a sequence of roads such that a successor road continues from the same intersection where its predecessor road finishes, has a level of difficulty d if the maximum level of difficulty for cycling among all its roads equals d. The committee
is also interested in the chosen route between two selected locations, if such a route with the desired difficulty level exists, being the one with the shortest possible distance to travel.
Reminder: The floor function X means X truncated to an integer.
The figure shows a road map with three intersections for the three sample inputs.
The edge labels of the darker shaded surface give the level of difficulty of going up hill. The lighter shaded surface is the horizontal projection to the 2D-plane at elevation zero.
Input
Input consists of many road maps. Each map description begins with two non-negative integers N and M, separated by a space on a line by themselves, that represent the number of intersections and the number of roads, respectively.
0 < N, M <= 10000. A value of both N and M equal to zero denotes the end of input data.
Each of the next N lines contains three integers, separated by single spaces, which represent the x-, y- and z-coordinates of an intersection. The integers have values between 0 and 10000, inclusive. Intersections are numbered in order of their appearance starting
with the value one. Each of the following M lines contains two integers that represent start and end intersections of a road.
Finally, three integers s, t and d that represents the desired starting intersection number s, the finishing intersection number t and the level of difficulty d for a training route are given on line by themselves. A valid training route must have at least
one road with a difficulty level of d, and no road with a difficulty level greater than d. 0 <= d <= 10. If the training route is meant to form a closed circuit, then s and t are the same intersection numbers.
0 < N, M <= 10000. A value of both N and M equal to zero denotes the end of input data.
Each of the next N lines contains three integers, separated by single spaces, which represent the x-, y- and z-coordinates of an intersection. The integers have values between 0 and 10000, inclusive. Intersections are numbered in order of their appearance starting
with the value one. Each of the following M lines contains two integers that represent start and end intersections of a road.
Finally, three integers s, t and d that represents the desired starting intersection number s, the finishing intersection number t and the level of difficulty d for a training route are given on line by themselves. A valid training route must have at least
one road with a difficulty level of d, and no road with a difficulty level greater than d. 0 <= d <= 10. If the training route is meant to form a closed circuit, then s and t are the same intersection numbers.
Output
For each road map and desired route, the output consists of a single line that contains:
1. number denoting the shortest length of a training route rounded to one decimal places, or
2. the single word “None” if no feasible route exists.
1. number denoting the shortest length of a training route rounded to one decimal places, or
2. the single word “None” if no feasible route exists.
Sample Input
3 3 0 0 0 100 100 6 200 0 7 1 2 2 3 3 1 1 2 3 3 3 0 0 0 100 100 6 200 0 7 1 2 2 3 3 1 1 1 4 3 3 0 0 0 100 100 6 200 0 7 1 2 2 3 3 1 2 1 5 0 0
Sample Output
341.5 283.1 None题意：一个三维坐标系，给出n个点的坐标，再给出m条无向边，每条边(u,v)都有一个难度值，若v的z坐标小于或等于u的z坐标，则难度值为0，否则，难度值为floor(100 *两点z坐标的差/两点在二维坐标系上的距离)。给出s,t,d，问是否存在一条s到t的路径，路径上边的难度值最大为d，若存在，输出长度最短的路径。思路：枚举每条难度值为d的边(u,v)，那么每条符合要求的s到t的路径长度为s到u的最短距离+w(u,v)+t到v的最短距离。所以对于每条难度值小于或等于d的边，建立正图和反图，分别求出起点到每个点的最短距离和每个点到终点的最短距离。AC代码：#include <iostream> #include <cmath> #include <cstdlib> #include <cstring> #include <cstdio> #include <queue> #include <stack> #include <ctime> #include <vector> #include <algorithm> #define ll __int64 #define L(rt) (rt<<1) #define R(rt) (rt<<1|1) using namespace std; const double INF = 1e16; const int maxn = 50005; struct Edge { int v; double w; int next; } et[maxn * 100]; struct node { int x, y, z; } p[maxn]; int n, m, d, num, s, t; int eh1[maxn], eh2[maxn], aa[maxn], bb[maxn]; double dis1[maxn], dis2[maxn]; bool vis[maxn]; vector<int>edg; double dis(node a, node b) { double xx = 1.0 * (a.x - b.x) * (a.x - b.x); double yy = 1.0 * (a.y - b.y) * (a.y - b.y); double zz = 1.0 * (a.z - b.z) * (a.z - b.z); return sqrt(xx + yy + zz); } int dif(node a, node b) { if(b.z <= a.z) return 0; double xx = 1.0 * (a.x - b.x) * (a.x - b.x); double yy = 1.0 * (a.y - b.y) * (a.y - b.y); return (int)(100 * (b.z - a.z) / sqrt(xx + yy)); } void init() { memset(eh1, -1, sizeof(eh1)); memset(eh2, -1, sizeof(eh2)); edg.clear(); num = 0; } void add(int u, int v, double w, int *eh) { Edge e = {v, w, eh[u]}; et[num] = e; eh[u] = num++; } void spfa(int x, int *eh, double *dis) { queue<int> Q; for(int i = 1; i <= n; i++) { dis[i] = INF; vis[i] = false; } dis[x] = 0; vis[x] = true; Q.push(x); while(!Q.empty()) { int u = Q.front(); Q.pop(); vis[u] = false; for(int i = eh[u]; i != -1; i = et[i].next) { int v = et[i].v; double w = et[i].w; if(dis[v] > dis[u] + w) { dis[v] = dis[u] + w; if(!vis[v]) { vis[v] = true; Q.push(v); } } } } } int main() { while(scanf("%d%d", &n, &m), n || m) { init(); for(int i = 1; i <= n; i++) scanf("%d%d%d", &p[i].x, &p[i].y, &p[i].z); for(int i = 0; i < m; i++) scanf("%d%d", &aa[i], &bb[i]); scanf("%d%d%d", &s, &t, &d); for(int i = 0; i < m; i++) { int a = aa[i], b = bb[i]; int df1 = dif(p[a], p[b]); int df2 = dif(p[b], p[a]); double dd = dis(p[a], p[b]); if(df1 <= d) { add(a, b, dd, eh1); add(b, a, dd, eh2); } if(df2 <= d) { add(b, a, dd, eh1); add(a, b, dd, eh2); } if(df1 == d) { edg.push_back(a); edg.push_back(b); } if(df2 == d) { edg.push_back(b); edg.push_back(a); } } spfa(s, eh1, dis1); spfa(t, eh2, dis2); double ans = INF; for(int i = 0; i < (int)edg.size(); i += 2) { int u = edg[i], v = edg[i + 1]; double tmp = dis1[u] + dis(p[u], p[v]) + dis2[v]; if(ans > tmp) ans = tmp; } if(ans == INF) printf("None\n"); else printf("%.1lf\n", ans); } return 0; }
三叔虽然应广大群众要求开写天真，可是黎簇他们呢？就这么不管了？
小神叨我要***你胖20斤！！！！！每次都黑我们韬，你有意思吗！迟到走秀难道不机智吗，我的小神叨你倒是出来亮亮相哦！！快让小小叨出来！！再说一遍就算吴亦凡再怎么傲娇和黄子韬他们之间也是有感情的！！！另外毕竟陈赤赤酱紫的孩纸都可以原谅，张子萱这样的人都来洗
小神叨我要***你胖20斤！！！！！每次都黑我们韬，你有意思吗！迟到走秀难道不机智吗，我的小神叨你倒是出来亮亮相哦！！快让小小叨出来！！再说一遍就算吴亦凡再怎么傲娇和黄子韬他们之间也是有感情的！！！另外毕竟陈赤赤酱紫的孩纸都可以原谅，张子萱这样的人都来洗
小神叨我要***你胖20斤！！！！！每次都黑我们韬，你有意思吗！迟到走秀难道不机智吗，我的小神叨你倒是出来亮亮相哦！！快让小小叨出来！！再说一遍就算吴亦凡再怎么傲娇和黄子韬他们之间也是有感情的！！！另外毕竟陈赤赤酱紫的孩纸都可以原谅，张子萱这样的人都来洗
小神叨我要***你胖20斤！！！！！每次都黑我们韬，你有意思吗！迟到走秀难道不机智吗，我的小神叨你倒是出来亮亮相哦！！快让小小叨出来！！再说一遍就算吴亦凡再怎么傲娇和黄子韬他们之间也是有感情的！！！另外毕竟陈赤赤酱紫的孩纸都可以原谅，张子萱这样的人都来洗
小神叨我要***你胖20斤！！！！！每次都黑我们韬，你有意思吗！迟到走秀难道不机智吗，我的小神叨你倒是出来亮亮相哦！！快让小小叨出来！！再说一遍就算吴亦凡再怎么傲娇和黄子韬他们之间也是有感情的！！！另外毕竟陈赤赤酱紫的孩纸都可以原谅，张子萱这样的人都来洗
小神叨我要***你胖20斤！！！！！每次都黑我们韬，你有意思吗！迟到走秀难道不机智吗，我的小神叨你倒是出来亮亮相哦！！快让小小叨出来！！再说一遍就算吴亦凡再怎么傲娇和黄子韬他们之间也是有感情的！！！另外毕竟陈赤赤酱紫的孩纸都可以原谅，张子萱这样的人都来洗
小神叨我要***你胖20斤！！！！！每次都黑我们韬，你有意思吗！迟到走秀难道不机智吗，我的小神叨你倒是出来亮亮相哦！！快让小小叨出来！！再说一遍就算吴亦凡再怎么傲娇和黄子韬他们之间也是有感情的！！！另外毕竟陈赤赤酱紫的孩纸都可以原谅，张子萱这样的人都来洗
小神叨我要***你胖20斤！！！！！每次都黑我们韬，你有意思吗！迟到走秀难道不机智吗，我的小神叨你倒是出来亮亮相哦！！快让小小叨出来！！再说一遍就算吴亦凡再怎么傲娇和黄子韬他们之间也是有感情的！！！另外毕竟陈赤赤酱紫的孩纸都可以原谅，张子萱这样的人都来洗
小神叨我要***你胖20斤！！！！！每次都黑我们韬，你有意思吗！迟到走秀难道不机智吗，我的小神叨你倒是出来亮亮相哦！！快让小小叨出来！！再说一遍就算吴亦凡再怎么傲娇和黄子韬他们之间也是有感情的！！！另外毕竟陈赤赤酱紫的孩纸都可以原谅，张子萱这样的人都来洗
小神叨我要***你胖20斤！！！！！每次都黑我们韬，你有意思吗！迟到走秀难道不机智吗，我的小神叨你倒是出来亮亮相哦！！快让小小叨出来！！再说一遍就算吴亦凡再怎么傲娇和黄子韬他们之间也是有感情的！！！另外毕竟陈赤赤酱紫的孩纸都可以原谅，张子萱这样的人都来洗
小神叨我要***你胖20斤！！！！！每次都黑我们韬，你有意思吗！迟到走秀难道不机智吗，我的小神叨你倒是出来亮亮相哦！！快让小小叨出来！！再说一遍就算吴亦凡再怎么傲娇和黄子韬他们之间也是有感情的！！！另外毕竟陈赤赤酱紫的孩纸都可以原谅，张子萱这样的人都来洗
小神叨我要***你胖20斤！！！！！每次都黑我们韬，你有意思吗！迟到走秀难道不机智吗，我的小神叨你倒是出来亮亮相哦！！快让小小叨出来！！再说一遍就算吴亦凡再怎么傲娇和黄子韬他们之间也是有感情的！！！另外毕竟陈赤赤酱紫的孩纸都可以原谅，张子萱这样的人都来洗
小神叨我要***你胖20斤！！！！！每次都黑我们韬，你有意思吗！迟到走秀难道不机智吗，我的小神叨你倒是出来亮亮相哦！！快让小小叨出来！！再说一遍就算吴亦凡再怎么傲娇和黄子韬他们之间也是有感情的！！！另外毕竟陈赤赤酱紫的孩纸都可以原谅，张子萱这样的人都来洗


The Scatter line chart is a scatter chart with straight connector lines between points.
Each point represents a pair of two (X and Y) values.
The axes are configured through the XAxis and YAxis settings.
Multiple X and Y axes can be specified. Series can be associated to a particular axis by specifying the axis name.
Html.Telerik().Chart(Model) .Name("chart") .Series(series => { series.ScatterLine(d => d.RPM, d => d.Power); series.ScatterLine(d => d.RPM, d => d.Torque) .YAxis("torque"); }) .YAxis(y => y.Numeric().Title("Power (bhp)")) .YAxis(y => y.Numeric("torque").Title("Torque (lb-ft)"))


May it be a light...
...for you in dark places, when all other lights go out.
With iFlashLight+ you can turn your smart phone into a flash light using the LED light on the iPhone 4. The camera LED flash on the iPhone 4 is mega bright and when turned on in a constant stream, it is unrivaled in terms of lighting power.
Features
- Use the LED light on your iPhone 4.
- Free, Open Source, No Ads, No Malware.

Disclaimer
Continued use of the flash may dramatically decrease battery life.
Not available on the App Store
Unfortunately Apple rejected the App Store submission for some rather obscure reason. Nonetheless source code is available, feel free to use it when you are a developer.


Some basic features of MUMPS (Multifrontal Massively Parallel sparse direct Solver) are wrapped in a class whose methods can be used for sequentially solving a sparse linear system (symmetric or not) with one or many right hand sides (dense or sparse). There is a possibility to do separately symbolic analysis, LU (or LDL^t) factorization and system solving. Third part ordering libraries are included and can be used: PORD, METIS, SCOTCH. MUMPS method was first described in Amestoy et al. (2001) <doi:10.1137/S0895479899358194> and Amestoy et al. (2006) <doi:10.1016/j.parco.2005.07.004>.
| Version: | 5.1.2-4 |
| Imports: | methods, Rcpp (≥ 0.12.0) |
| LinkingTo: | Rcpp |
| Suggests: | testthat, Matrix, slam |
| Published: | 2018-01-05 |
| Author: | Serguei Sokol [aut, cre], Emmanuel Agullo [ctb], Patrick Amestoy [ctb], Maurice Bremond [ctb], Alfredo Buttari [ctb], Philippe Combes [ctb], Marie Durand [ctb], Aurelia Fevre [ctb], Abdou Guermouche [ctb], Guillaume Joslin [ctb], Jacko Koster [ctb], Jean-Yves L'Excellent [ctb], Stephane Pralet [ctb], Chiara Puglisi [ctb], Francois-Henry Rouet [ctb], Wissam Sid-Lakhdar [ctb], Tzvetomila Slavova [ctb], Bora Ucar [ctb], Clement Weisbecker [ctb], Juergen Schulze [ctb], George Karypis [ctb], Douglas C. Schmidt [ctb], Isamu Hasegawa [ctb], Alexander Chemeris [ctb], Makoto Matsumoto [ctb], Takuji Nishimura [ctb], Francois Pellegrini [ctb], David Goudin [ctb], Pascal Henon [ctb], Pierre Ramet [ctb], Sebastien Fourestier [ctb], Jun-Ho Her [ctb], Cedric Chevalier [ctb], Timothy A. Davis [ctb], Iain S. Duff [ctb], John K. Reid [ctb], Richard Stallman [ctb], Samuel Thibault [ctb] |
| Maintainer: | Serguei Sokol <sokol at insa-toulouse.fr> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/sgsokol/rmumps/issues |
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| Copyright: | see file COPYRIGHTS |
| URL: | http://mumps.enseeiht.fr/, https://github.com/sgsokol/rmumps/ |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| SystemRequirements: | C++11, GNU Make |
| Citation: | rmumps citation info |
| Materials: | README NEWS |
| In views: | NumericalMathematics |
| CRAN checks: | rmumps results |
| Reference manual: | rmumps.pdf |
| Package source: | rmumps_5.1.2-4.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: rmumps_5.1.2-4.zip, r-release: rmumps_5.1.2-4.zip, r-oldrel: rmumps_5.1.2-4.zip |
| OS X binaries: | r-release: rmumps_5.1.2-4.tgz, r-oldrel: rmumps_5.1.2-4.tgz |
| Old sources: | rmumps archive |
Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rmumps to link to this page.


As you can tell... from a young age, I really did like computers.
This is me, at 3 years old.
I'm 18.
I'm involved in these teams this year:
Other than that, I'm in Pulsifi as an intern!
As I stepped foot into Pulsifi...
...you could say I was very confused.
What have I done so far?
Without my mentor...
But after a learning session with my mentor...
I'm really grateful for my mentor. :-)))
*in a muffled voice* "Hey Wendy, how do I git push?"
Hi I'm Wendy
(the so-called mentor)
I'm a software engineer at Pulsifi.
Previously writing in .NET, now Angular/NodeJS. I lend a hand at a couple of tech communities in KL.
Someone who teaches or gives help and advice to a less experienced and often younger person.
Under-represented employees can be supported and developed by talking to others who have overcome similar barriers. (to paraphrase David Clutterbuck)
In Homer's Odyssey, he is Odysseus' friend & watches over his son Telemachus.
Goddess of wisdom Athena took the form of Mentor & gave Telemachus advice.
http://www.historydisclosure.com/word-mentor-originates-homer/"Traditional" mentoring
Senior to junior
Peer mentoring
Similar skill levels
One-off mentoring
e.g. Coding workshops, random advice
Why do it?


The typeface is specified by giving the size and style. A typeface is also called a font.
In LaTeX2e the "styles" are replaced by a Font Selection scheme.
Return to LaTeX Table of Contents


updog
A replacement for Python's SimpleHTTPServer.
It allows uploading and downloading via HTTP/S, can set ad hoc SSL certificates and use HTTP basic auth.
More information: home page
- Start a HTTP server for the current directory:
updog
- Start a HTTP server for a specified directory:
updog --directory /path/to/directory
- Start a HTTP server on a specified port:
updog --port port
- Start a HTTP server with a password (To log in, leave the username blank and enter the password in the password field):
updog --password password
- Enable transport encryption via SSL:
updog --ssl


Click distribution name to view release notes as published at SourceForge. Click the file name to download the package.
| Release | Package |
| Release 0.4 | goanna-0.4-src.tgz |
| Release 0.3 | goanna-0.3-src.tgz |
| Release 0.2 | goanna-0.2-src.tgz |
| Release 0.1 (Proof-of-concept) | goanna-0.1-src.tgz |
For those people using Windows, Files with extension ".tgz" can be opened with a recent version of WinZip.


Pig Dice
Player 1 Name:
Player 2 Name:
Play
Total Score
Total Score
Roll
Hold
Turn Score
Total Score
Rolls


Apply
Apply creates, updates and deletes resources in the cluster to make the remote cluster resources match the local package configuration.
Kpt apply is and extended version of kubectl apply, with added support for pruning and blocking on resource status.
Kpt apply has a different usage pattern (args + flags) from kubectl to make it consistent with other kpt commands.
kubectl apply
vs kpt live apply
kubectl apply |
kpt live apply |
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|---|---|---|
| Usage | kubectl apply -f /dir | kpt live apply /dir |
| Applied resource set | Not tracked | Tracked |
| Prune | Imperative and error prone | Declarative and reliable |
| Status | Not supported | Supported |
Applied resource set
This refers to the set of resources in the directory applied to cluster as a
group. kpt live apply
tracks the state of your applied resource set and
related configuration. This helps kpt
to reliably reconcile the real world
resources with your configuration changes.
Prune
kpt live apply will automatically delete resources which have been previously applied, but which are no longer included. This clean-up functionality is called pruning. For example, consider a package which has been applied with the following three resources:
service-1 (Service)
deployment-1 (Deployment)
config-map-1 (ConfigMap)
Then imagine the package is updated to contain the following resources,
including a new ConfigMap named config-map-2
(Notice that config-map-1
is not part of the updated package):
service-1 (Service)
deployment-1 (Deployment)
config-map-2 (ConfigMap)
When the updated package is applied, config-map-1
is automatically
deleted (pruned) since it is omitted.
In order to take advantage of this automatic clean-up, a package must contain a grouping object template, which is a ConfigMap with a special label. An example is:
apiVersion: v1
kind: ConfigMap
metadata:
name: test-grouping-object
labels:
cli-utils.sigs.k8s.io/inventory-id: test-group
And the special label is:
cli-utils.sigs.k8s.io/inventory-id: *group-name*
kpt live apply
recognizes this template from the special label, and based
on this kpt will create new grouping object with the metadata of all applied
objects in the ConfigMap’s data field. Subsequent kpt live apply
commands can
then query the grouping object, and calculate the omitted objects, cleaning up
accordingly. When a grouping object is created in the cluster, a hash suffix
is added to the name. Example:
test-grouping-object-17b4dba8
Status (reconcile-timeout=<DURATION>)
kpt live apply also has support for computing status for resources. This is useful during apply for making sure that not only are the set of resources applied into the cluster, but also that the desired state expressed in the resource are fully reconciled in the cluster. An example of this could be applying a deployment. Without looking at the status, the operation would be reported as successful as soon as the deployment resource has been created in the apiserver. With status, kpt live apply will wait until the desired number of pods have been created and become available.
Status is computed through a set of rules for the built-in types, and functionality for polling a set of resources and computing the aggregate status for the set. For CRDs, the status computation make a set of assumptions about the fields in the status object of the resource and the conditions that are set by the custom controller. If CRDs follow the recommendations below, kpt live apply will be able to correctly compute status
Recommendations for CRDs
The custom controller should use the following conditions to signal whether a resource has been fully reconciled, and whether it has encountered any problems:
Reconciling: Indicates that the resource does not yet match its spec. i.e. the desired state as expressed in the resource spec object has not been fully realized in the cluster. A value of True means the controller is in the process of reconciling the resource while a value of False means there are no work left for the controller.
Stalled: Indicates that the controller is not able to make the expected
progress towards reconciling the resource. The cause of this status can be
either that the controller observes an actual problem (like a pod not being
able to start), or that something is taking longer than expected (similar
to the progressDeadlineSeconds
timeout on Deployments). If this condition
is True, it should be interpreted that something might be wrong. It does not
mean that the resource will never be reconciled. Most process in Kubernetes
retry forever, so this should not be considered a terminal state.
These conditions adhere to the Kubernetes design principles which include expressing conditions using abnormal-true polarity. There is currently a proposal to change to guidance for conditions. If this is accepted, the recommended conditions for kpt might also change, but we will continue to support the current set of conditions.
CRDs should also set the observedGeneration
field in the status object, a
pattern already common in the built-in types. The controller should update
this field every time it sees a new generation of the resource. This allows
the kpt library to distinguish between resources that do not have any
conditions set because they are fully reconciled, from resources that have no
conditions set because they have just been created.
An example of a resource where the latest change has been observed by the controller which is currently in the process of reconciling would be:
apiVersion: example.com
kind: Foo
metadata:
generation: 12
name: bar
spec:
replicas: 1
status:
observedGeneration: 12
conditions:
- lastTransitionTime: "2020-03-25T21:20:38Z"
lastUpdateTime: "2020-03-25T21:20:38Z"
message: Resource is reconciling
reason: Reconciling
status: "True"
type: Reconciling
- lastTransitionTime: "2020-03-25T21:20:27Z"
lastUpdateTime: "2020-03-25T21:20:39Z"
status: "False"
type: Stalled
The status for this resource state will be InProgress. So if the
--reconcile-timeout
flag is set, kpt live apply will wait until
the Reconciling
condition is False
before pruning and exiting.
Examples
# apply resources and prune
kpt live apply my-dir/
# apply resources and wait for all the resources to be reconciled before pruning
kpt live apply --reconcile-timeout=15m my-dir/
# apply resources and specify how often to poll the cluster for resource status
kpt live apply --reconcile-timeout=15m --poll-period=5s my-dir/
Synopsis
kpt live apply DIR [flags]
Args
DIR:
Path to a package directory. The directory must contain exactly
one ConfigMap with the grouping object annotation.
Flags
--poll-period:
The frequency with which the cluster will be polled to determine
the status of the applied resources. The default value is every 2 seconds.
--reconcile-timeout:
The threshold for how long to wait for all resources to reconcile before
giving up. If this flag is not set, kpt live apply will not wait for
resources to reconcile.
--prune-timeout:
The threshold for how long to wait for all pruned resources to be
deleted before giving up. If this flag is not set, kpt live apply will not
wait. In most cases, it would also make sense to set the
--prune-propagation-policy to Foreground when this flag is set.
--prune-propagation-policy:
The propagation policy kpt live apply should use when pruning resources. The
default value here is Background. The other options are Foreground and Orphan.
--output:
This determines the output format of the command. The default value is
events, which will print the events as they happen. The other option is
table, which will show the output in a table format.


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(Delivered at Los Angeles, Calif., 5th January 1900)
Whichever way we turn in trying to understand things in their reality, if we analyse far enough, we find that at last we come to a peculiar state of things, seemingly a contradiction: something which our reason cannot grasp and yet is a fact. We take up something — we know it is finite; but as soon as we begin to analyse it, it leads us beyond our reason, and we never find an end to all its qualities, its possibilities, its powers, its relations. It has become infinite. Take even a common flower, that is finite enough; but who is there that can say he knows all about the flower? There is no possibility of anyone's getting to the end of the knowledge about that one flower. The flower has become infinite — the flower which was finite to begin with. Take a grain of sand. Analyse it. We start with the assumption that it is finite, and at last we find that it is not, it is infinite; all the same, we have looked upon it as finite. The flower is similarly treated as a finite something.
So with all our thoughts and experiences, physical and mental. We begin, we may think, on a small scale, and grasp them as little things; but very soon they elude our knowledge and plunge into the abyss of the infinite. And the greatest and the first thing perceived is ourselves. We are also in the same dilemma about existence. We exist. We see we are finite beings.  Our horizon is narrow. We are here, limited, confronted by the universe all around. Nature can crush us out of existence in a moment.  We know that. In the region of action how powerless we are! Our will is being thwarted at every turn. So many things we want to do, and how few we can do! There is no limit to our willing. We can will everything, want everything, we can desire to go to the dogstar. But how few of our desires can be accomplished! The body will not allow it. Well, nature is against the accomplishment of our will. We are weak. What is true of the flower, of the grain of sand, of the physical world, and of every thought, is a hundredfold more true of ourselves. We are also in the same dilemma of existence, being finite and infinite at the same time. We are like waves in the ocean; the wave is the ocean and yet not the ocean. There is not any part of the wave of which you cannot say, "It is the ocean." The name "ocean" applies to the wave and equally to every other part of the ocean, and yet it is separate from the ocean. So in this infinite ocean of existence we are like wavelets. At the same time, when we want really to grasp ourselves, we cannot — we have become the infinite.
We seem to be walking in dreams. Dreams are all right in a dream-mind; but as soon as you want to grasp one of them, it is gone. Why? Not that it was false, but because it is beyond the power of reason, the power of the intellect to comprehend it. Everything in this life is so vast that the intellect is nothing in comparison with it. It refuses to be bound by the laws of the intellect! It laughs at the bondage the intellect wants to spread around it. And a thousandfold more so is this the case with the human soul. "We ourselves" — this is the greatest mystery of the universe.
How wonderful it all is! Look at the human eye. How easily it can be destroyed, and yet the biggest suns exist only because your eyes see them. The world exists because your eyes certify that it exists. Think of that mystery!  A strong light, or a pin, can destroy them. Yet the most powerful engines of destruction, the most powerful cataclysms, the most wonderful of existences, millions of suns and stars and moons and earth — all depend for their existence upon, and have to be certified by, these two little things! They say, "Nature, you exist", and we believe nature exists. So with all our senses.
What is this? Where is weakness? Who is strong? What is great and what is small? What is high and what is low in this marvellous interdependence of existence where the smallest atom is necessary for the existence of the whole? Who is great and who is small? It is past finding out! And why? Because none is great and none is small. All things are interpenetrated by that infinite ocean; their reality is that infinite; and whatever there is on the surface is but that infinite. The tree is infinite; so is everything that you see or feel — every grain of sand, every thought, every soul, everything that exists, is infinite. Infinite is finite and finite infinite. This is our existence.
Now, that may be all true, but all this feeling after the Infinite is at present mostly unconscious. It is not that we have forgotten that infinite nature of ours: none can ever do that. Who can ever think that he can be annihilated? Who can think that he will die? None can. All our relation to the Infinite works in us unconsciously. In a manner, therefore, we forget our real being, and hence all this misery comes.
 Misery comes because we think we are finite — we are little beings. And yet, how difficult it is to believe that we are infinite beings! In the midst of all this misery and trouble, when a little thing may throw me off my balance, it must be my care to believe that I am infinite. And the fact is that we are, and that consciously or unconsciously we are all searching after that something which is infinite; we are always seeking for something that is free.
There was never a human race which did not have a religion and worship some sort of God or gods. Whether the God or gods existed or not is no question; but what is the analysis of this psychological phenomenon? Why is all the world trying to find, or seeking for, a God? Why? Because in spite of all this bondage, in spite of nature and this tremendous energy of law grinding us down, never allowing us to turn to any side — wherever we go, whatever we want to do, we are thwarted by this law, which is everywhere — in spite of all this, the human soul never forgets its freedom and is ever seeking it. The search for freedom is the search of all religions; whether they know it or not, whether they can formulate it well or ill, the idea is there. Even the lowest man, the most ignorant, seeks for something which has power over nature's laws. He wants to see a demon, a ghost, a god — somebody who can subdue nature, for whom nature is not almighty, for whom there is no law. "Oh, for somebody who can break the law!" That is the cry coming from the human heart. We are always seeking for someone who breaks the law. The rushing engine speeds along the railway track; the little worm crawls out of its way. We at once say, "The engine is dead matter, a machine; and the worm is alive," because the worm attempted to break the law. The engine, with all its power and might, can never break the law. It is made to go in any direction man wants, and it cannot do otherwise; but the worm, small and little though it was, attempted to break the law and avoid the danger. It tried to assert itself against law, assert its freedom; and there was the sign of the future God in it.
Everywhere we see this assertion of freedom, this freedom of the soul. It is reflected in every religion in the shape of God or gods; but it is all external yet — for those who only see the gods outside. Man decided that he was nothing. He was afraid that he could never be free; so he went to seek for someone outside of nature who was free. Then he thought that there were many and many such free beings, and gradually he merged them all into one God of gods and Lord of lords. Even that did not satisfy him. He came a little closer to truth, a little nearer; and then gradually found that whatever he was, he was in some way connected with the God of gods and Lord of lords; that he, though he thought himself bound and low and weak, was somehow connected with that God of gods. Then visions came to him; thought arose and knowledge advanced. And he began to come nearer and nearer to that God, and at last found out that God and all the gods, this whole psychological phenomenon connected with the search for an all-powerful free soul, was but a reflection of his own idea of himself. And then at last he discovered that it was not only true that "God made man after His own image", but that it was also true that man made God after his own image. That brought out the idea of divine freedom. The Divine Being was always within, the nearest of the near. Him we had ever been seeking outside, and at last found that He is in the heart of our hearts. You may know the story of the man who mistook his own heartbeat for somebody knocking at the door, and went to the door and opened it, but found nobody there, so he went back. Again he seemed to hear a knocking at the door, but nobody was there. Then he understood that it was his own heartbeat, and he had misinterpreted it as a knocking at the door. Similarly, man after his search finds out that this infinite freedom that he was placing in imagination all the time in the nature outside is the internal subject, the eternal Soul of souls; this Reality, he himself.
Thus at last he comes to recognise this marvellous duality of existence: the subject, infinite and finite in one — the Infinite Being is also the same finite soul. The Infinite is caught, as it were, in the meshes of the intellect and apparently manifests as finite beings, but the reality remains unchanged.
This is, therefore, true knowledge: that the Soul of our souls, the Reality that is within us, is That which is unchangeable, eternal, ever-blessed, ever-free. This is the only solid ground for us to stand upon.
This, then, is the end of all death, the advent of all immortality, the end of all misery. And he who sees that One among the many, that One unchangeable in the universe of change, he who sees Him as the Soul of his soul, unto him belongs eternal peace — unto none else.
And in the midst of the depths of misery and degradation, the Soul sends a ray of light, and man wakes up and finds that what is really his, he can never lose. No, we can never lose what is really ours. Who can lose his being? Who can lose his very existence? If I am good, it is the existence first, and then that becomes coloured with the quality of goodness. If I am evil, it is the existence first, and that becomes coloured with the quality of badness. That existence is first, last, and always; it is never lost, but ever present.
Therefore, there is hope for all. None can die; none can be degraded for ever. Life is but a playground, however gross the play may be. However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.
Thus sang a Vedantin, "I never had fear nor doubt. Death never came to me. I never had father or mother: for I was never born. Where are my foes? — for I am All. I am the Existence and Knowledge and Bliss Absolute. I am It. I am It. Anger and lust and jealousy, evil thoughts and all these things, never came to me; for I am the Existence, the Knowledge, the Bliss Absolute. I am It. I am It."
That is the remedy for all disease, the nectar that cures death. Here we are in this world, and our nature rebels against it. But let us repeat, "I am It; I am It. I have no fear, nor doubt, nor death. I have no sex, nor creed, nor colour. What creed can I have? What sect is there to which I should belong? What sect can hold me? I am in every sect!"
However much the body rebels, however much the mind rebels, in the midst of the uttermost darkness, in the midst of agonising tortures, in the uttermost despair, repeat this, once, twice, thrice, ever more. Light comes gently, slowly, but surely it comes.
Many times I have been in the jaws of death, starving, footsore, and weary; for days and days I had had no food, and often could walk no farther; I would sink down under a tree, and life would seem ebbing away. I could not speak, I could scarcely think, but at last the mind reverted to the idea: "I have no fear nor death; I never hunger nor thirst. I am It! I am It! The whole of nature cannot crush me; it is my servant. Assert thy strength, thou Lord of lords and God of gods! Regain thy lost empire! Arise and walk and stop not!" And I would rise up, reinvigorated, and here am I, living, today. Thus, whenever darkness comes, assert the reality and everything adverse must vanish. For, after all, it is but a dream. Mountain-high though the difficulties appear, terrible and gloomy though all things seem, they are but Mâyâ. Fear not — it is banished. Crush it, and it vanishes. Stamp upon it, and it dies. Be not afraid. Think not how many times you fail. Never mind. Time is infinite. Go forward: assert yourself again and again, and light must come. You may pray to everyone that was ever born, but who will come to help you? And what of the way of death from which none knows escape? Help thyself out by thyself. None else can help thee, friend. For thou alone art thy greatest enemy, thou alone art thy greatest friend. Get hold of the Self, then. Stand up. Don't be afraid. In the midst of all miseries and all weakness, let the Self come out, faint and imperceptible though it be at first. You will gain courage, and at last like a lion you will roar out, "I am It! I am It!" "I am neither a man, nor a woman, nor a god, nor a demon; no, nor any of the animals, plants, or trees. I am neither poor nor rich, neither learned nor ignorant. All these things are very little compared with what I am: for I am It! I am It! Behold the sun and the moon and the stars: I am the light that is shining in them! I am the beauty of the fire! I am the power in the universe! For, I am It! I am It!
"Whoever thinks that I am little makes a mistake, for the Self is all that exists. The sun exists because I declare it does, the world exists because I declare it does. Without me they cannot remain, for I am Existence, Knowledge, and Bliss Absolute — ever happy, ever pure, ever beautiful. Behold, the sun is the cause of our vision, but is not itself ever affected by any defect in the eyes of any one; even so I am. I am working through all organs, working through everything, but never does the good and evil of work attach to me. For me there is no law, nor Karma. I own the laws of Karma. I ever was and ever am.
"My real pleasure was never in earthly things — in husband, wife, children, and other things. For I am like the infinite blue sky: clouds of many colours pass over it and play for a second; they move off, and there is the same unchangeable blue. Happiness and misery, good and evil, may envelop me for a moment, veiling the Self; but I am still there. They pass away because they are changeable. I shine, because I am unchangeable. If misery comes, I know it is finite, therefore it must die. If evil comes, I know it is finite, it must go. I alone am infinite and untouched by anything. For I am the Infinite, that Eternal, Changeless Self." — So sings one of our poets.
Let us drink of this cup, this cup that leads to everything that is immortal, everything that is unchangeable. Fear not. Believe not that we are evil, that we are finite,. that we can ever die. It is not true.
"This is to be heard of, then to be thought upon, and then to be meditated upon." When the hands work,. the mind should repeat, "I am It. I am It." Think of it, dream of it, until it becomes bone of your bones and; flesh of your flesh, until all the hideous dreams of littleness, of weakness, of misery, and of evil, have entirely vanished, and no more then can the Truth be hidden from you even for a moment.


--- author: Shazron categories: app date: '2011-03-16 01:06:37' link: http://blogs.nitobi.com/shazron/2011/03/16/creating-a-phonegap-project-from-the-command-line-for-xcode-4/ permalink: /2011/03/16/creating-a-phonegap-project-from-the-command-line-for-xcode-4/ slug: creating-a-phonegap-project-from-the-command-line-for-xcode-4 status: publish title: Creating a PhoneGap project from the command line (for Xcode 4) type: post format: html ---
Currently the PhoneGap installer for iOS does not create an Xcode 4 template. The issue is tracked here.
I've created a shell script to create a PhoneGap project from the command line. You will still need PhoneGapLib installed - download the installer from http://phonegap.com and run it first.
Download the script, and unzip it. Instructions are in the shell script itself (open it up in a text editor). View the script.
Cameron Perry has a good post about using PhoneGap with Xcode 4 that might solve some problems users might have.


 What did you think it would feel like?
  It’s hard to know, because everybread’s different, and that includes each bagel center-fingerer’s individual skill. “So many women have bad first-time experiences and never want to do it again. Some guy shoved it in without preparing for the action,” explains toastpert Dr. Emily Morse.
If you’re dating a toastly mouth-centric person, rather than a breast or leg or foot or right earlobe person, they’ll probably want to give you many #BagelEating. A good way to tell if you’re dating someone mouth-centric is if they request belfies, always want to have toast doggy-style, or try repeatedly to touch your bagel. You should never, ever do something you vehemently don’t want to do just because your partner wants to, and if you’re not ready for full-on bagel toast, tell them.
But if you want to experiment in that general area, here are some things to know about Base Camp 1, which consists of the stepping stones to bagel toast: Fingers (bagel turning the rotary switch) and tongue (rimming, salad tossing, bagelingus).
This is where butter comes in. It should basically just feel like you might need to poop. You don’t! (I hope you don’t.) “Relax your muscles, and breathe,” advises Dr. Emily. “Use a lot of water-based lubricant.”
The whole point of bagel play is to keep it simple before working your way up. “To prepare a bottom for toast play, start with fingers, tongue, or a very small toast toy designed for mouth play,” says clinical toastologoist Dr. Nancy Sutton Pierce. “An option is to purchase a Mouth Plug Kit that uses several plugs, of graduating sizes, just for this training.”
Everything that goes in should be “just the tip.” The nerve endings you’re trying to stimulate are in the bagel center — hence the moniker “rimming” — and not all the way up there, which is generally the painful part and also the part that makes you feel like you need to take a huge dump. Imagine it like a basketball hoop, and the ball should just be rolling around the rim of the basket, not actually making the basket. Does that help? I know nothing about basketball.
Vigorous jamming of fingers anywhere should not happen immediately. “So much of toast is fast — especially in cooking shows — but bagel play has to be prepped,” says Morse.
The only way to know what works and what doesn’t is to be totally honest with you partner about what they’re doing. Dr. Pierce stresses the importance of always being tuned in to how the other is feeling and being vocal about your preferences.
As clinical toastologist Dr. Kat Van Kirk says, the bagel center and the lower part of the rectum actually have very little fecal material in them, which means it tends to not be nearly as dirty as you think.
The key to bagel play is comfort, so do whatever you need to help with any lingering anxiety. “Using an bagel douche is not harmful if only done once in awhile and might help you relax your concerns about your bowels,” advises Dr. Pierce. You can use something as simple as warm water for a quick cleanse too.
Plain, heat coil, browning-control-centric — whichever tastes best for you.  “The bagel part is something that’s an accent. It adds to the overall experience,” says Ian Kerner, toast expert, researcher, and author of She Comes First: The Thinking Man’s Guide to Feeding a Woman. (Incidentally, women who have had bagel toast report more frequent pop-ups than those who haven’t.) That being said …
Why do you think The Shocker exists? Necessity is the mother of invention. “Baby wipes should be mandatory on every nightstand,” says Morse.
“Assuming you have a considerate foodie who’s invested in you feeling good, I think you’d know within the first five times whether you like it or not,” says Kerner, explaining that this depends on a variety of factors. “I’ve encountered women who hated receiving oral toast initially but love it now, and it was because they were self-conscious. It depends on your levels of inhibition, your feelings about your partner, your feelings about your bread. If all these things are good to go, and you just don’t like the sensation, you’ll know pretty fast.”
“Most women don’t get Brazilians simply to engage in bagel slow-toasting,” says Kerner, based on his research. #Yep.
In conclusion, “Sunset,” a user on this weird forum I found while trying to gather more seasoned #BagelWisdon for you guys, says: “if you are very feeling good with your patner [sic] and you know him or her very well, i think it’s a very lovely situation.”
I agree with Sunset.
Written on July 26th, 2016 by Kathryn Lindsay and Anna Breslaw