Safety Net is an Android app, available in the Google Play Store, designed to help alleviate fear. Inspired by a mother's constant worry for her children.
Say you are getting out of work late at night, the walk to your car or home is dark, sketchy, crossing territory that sends a shiver up your spine. How long should that walk take, 5, 10 minutes max? Set a Safety Net timer. If something happens and you are unable to turn off the timer, a message will be sent to your chosen contacts with a Google Maps link to your location. Help is on the way!
Safety Net is an open source project hosted in a GitHub Repository. Built using Ionic 2 to transpile Angular 2 with TypeScript for Android devices, Cordova plugins provide the native device functionality required for accessing contacts, geolocation, and SMS services.
Why is it free? Because the world could use a bit less fear. Safety Net is free to download, free to use, and free of advertisements. People should not profit from fear.
Why is it open source? Because I'm not perfect, and I'm certainly not a graphic designer. If anyone has improvments to functionality or style that they would like to submit, I would be more than happy to include them in this project.
I spent a year building up this application under contract to Buink Web Development. What we created in that time is a three tiered application including:
I joined the team in January of 2017 when the project was reaching the final months of its proof-of-concept phase. During this time I had the pleasure of adding additional features to the CMS, integrating the Brightcove video player, building the video security system, and creating a custom database seeding program to expedite development and testing.
Once our POC was completed I was able to do a deep dive into the pre-existing codebase tracking down memory leaks, trimming down unneccessary APIs, and refactoring endpoints and database queries to improve the efficiency, and scalability of our backend. After a few more features were fleshed out, it was time to finish things off with some cutting edge CSS to create a unique and responsive interface.
By the end of the year, the user experience had been polished and beta content was being uploaded to the live site in preparation for full launch. Overall the project was a great experience and I really enjoyed the opportunity to work with some great people over at Buink writing clean, maintainable code.
Gwendolyn the Rabbit is an infinite scroller game featuring Adam's neice in the form of a rabbit, jumping on ledges, stomping on snowmen, and eating carrots.
Built using Phaser.io, it is a JavaScript based HTML5 game which uses WebGL or Canvas depending on browser compatablility.
It was a fun way to play around with a new JavaScript library, and made a great Christmas present for a neice who is constantly jumping around.
For this project I had two weeks to create a fully functional POC for a mobile AR game where friends hunt each other down in the real world using the geopositioning capabilities built into their cellular devices. My favorite part of this project was leveraging Socket.io for its realtime communication capabilites; this, combined with the phone's built in compass, is what allowed players to efficiently track their opponent's movements on a "radar" display.
Using the MEAN stack to assemble the project as a web application was a quick and easy way to get things up and running. An extra advantage to this approach was that using Angular 2 with TypeScript, it would be easy to convert into a mobile app for either iOS or Android by using Cordova and the Ionic framework if it was desirable to move the project further forward.
I had a lot of fun getting this app up and running while learning to make practical use of some new technologies like websockets and the location API. In the future it would be interesting to revisit this project; incorporating facial recognition features would be a major goal, while adding microtransactions for in-game "power-ups" could create a more exciting and varied gameplay experience.
You can view the CodeCraft sponsored demo video here: The Most Dangerous Game


About: This sample is a phone application that provides a chat experience in which users can respond to messages with a quick voice response. New messages create a notification with a "Reply" action. The notification is bridged from phone to wearable, and selecting the "Reply" action on the wearable opens the voice transcription UI allowing the user to speak a response.
To keep the example simple and self-contained, instead of a real chat application (which would require a server or a peer-to-peer connection), the conversation is conducted with an chat bot on the phone. Each time the bot responds, the phone app updates the notification and allows the user to write back. This sample is primarily intended to demonstrate the voice-reply capabilities provided by the Android Wear notification API.
When using the emulator you can type a response instead of speaking it aloud. To allow typed responses, ensure that your emulator image has the "hardware keyboard present" option enabled. After typing your message into the emulator window, hit the enter key and wait a few seconds for your message to be sent.
How to run: Install the Application APK on the companion and run it. A notification will automatically be bridged onto the wearable, with a "Reply" action.
Screenshots:


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LINQ to Xml Data Binding sample shows data binding in WPF using Linq To Xml. The example allows you to stream videos from Soapbox on MSN Videos and lets you keep a list of your favorties(MyFavorties). The interface has two tabs, "Soapbox on MSN Video", and "Edit MyFavorites". Soapbox on MSN Video allows you to browse through predefined video lists as well as your custom search results. If you happen to like a video you can add it to MyFavorites by clicking on the Add button. In Edit MyFavorties you can update the video description as well as delete a video from MyFavorites. Look at Window1.xaml file to see how controls are bound to streaming XML data.
Many of the LINQ samples, including LINQ to Northwind, require the Northwind sample database that is located in the Data directory. By default the Data directory will be located under the same parent folder as the other LINQ samples. This will ensure that the path for the database files will be resolved automatically. Many of the sample files also require the ObjectDumper project.


Google Dialer 4.2 Beta teardown hints at automatic robocall screening
by RickyGoogle’s own Dialer app, available on Pixel devices and some Motorola phones, can screen phone calls for you. This means you Google Assistant can answer your phone if you don’t recognize the number or if the number is flagged as potential spam. In order to do this, you need to manually ask the dialer to screen the call as it arrives and then read the live transcription to see if the call is worth jumping into.
The Google Dialer might be gaining the ability to automatically screen and decline robocalls. Code discovered in the Dialer 4.2 Beta by XDA-Developers hints at the feature. Phone calls automatically screened and declined would not disturb the recipient and a transcript would become available shortly thereafter.
The strings of code mention things like “automatic call screening”, “automatically screen. Decline robocalls”, and “silently decline”. Twitter user @wongmjane managed to enable the feature before XDA posted the following screenshots.
Given the feature isn’t yet implemented, it’s probable that it could be added in a future update of the Google Dialer. It isn’t necessarily a sure thing since Google hasn’t acknowledged the update yet. We’re glad to see Google moving towards a world where our time isn’t wasted by robocallers.


abstract class DerivedDataDb : RoomDatabase
The "Data DB," where all data derived from the compact blocks is stored. Most importantly, this database contains transaction information and can be queried for the current balance. The "blocks" table contains a copy of everything that has been scanned. In the future, that table can be truncated up to the last scanned block, for storage efficiency. Wallets should only read from, but never write to, this database.
<init> |
The "Data DB," where all data derived from the compact blocks is stored. Most importantly, this database contains transaction information and can be queried for the current balance. The "blocks" table contains a copy of everything that has been scanned. In the future, that table can be truncated up to the last scanned block, for storage efficiency. Wallets should only read from, but never write to, this database. DerivedDataDb() |
blockDao |
abstract fun blockDao(): BlockDao |
receivedDao |
abstract fun receivedDao(): ReceivedDao |
sentDao |
abstract fun sentDao(): SentDao |
transactionDao |
abstract fun transactionDao(): TransactionDao |


This is achieved by using the spreader OneDirectedList, the reducer N_WayMerge and a group of ThreePhaseWorkers. The emit process creates a large number of QSData objects; such that one property, index, will be the key value used to sort that objects. Another property, batch, indicates to which of the ThreePhaseWorkers the objects should be directed by the OneDirectedList process.
The ThreePhaseWorkers each read a number of the QSData objects into a local worker object called QSWorker. This object implements the required inFunction, workFunction and outFunction methods. Internally, once all the input objects have been read, the workFunction is called, which carries out the QuickSort. Once the sort finishes the outFunction method is repeatedly called to outout the data held in the local data store. The output data objects are also QSData objects.
The output data objects are read by a N_WayMerge process that a method called mergeChoice that determines which of the available data objects that have been read will be chosen and written to the output channel of the process, where they can be Collected.
Author, Licence and Copyright statement author Jon Kerridge School of Computing Edinburgh Napier University Merchiston Campus, Colinton Road Edinburgh EH10 5DT Author contact: j.kerridge (at) napier.ac.uk Copyright Jon Kerridge Edinburgh Napier University * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
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Only meant to explore the TorchCraft Python API, not to build the best bot possible, you should probably approach your own differently!
Welcome to our tutorial for StarCraft: Brood War bots using Linux and the TorchCraft Python API; we will learn to:
Finally we can test and deploy by:


Malaysia detains Cambodian opposition leader Mu Sochua
KUALA LUMPUR/PHNOM PENH: Malaysia detained the deputy chief of Cambodia's banned opposition party, Mu Sochua, after Phnom Penh accused her and other self-exiled opposition figures of seeking to return home to stage a coup against longtime authoritarian leader Hun Sen.
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad indicated on Thursday (Nov 7) that Mu Sochua would not be turned over to Cambodia but would instead be deported to an as-yet-undetermined third country.
The detention came as Sam Rainsy, the founder of the opposition party, prepared to fly from Paris to Bangkok, vowing to return to Cambodia on Saturday to lead demonstrations against the one-party rule of Prime Minister Hun Sen.
Mu Sochua, 65, is one of several opposition leaders who fled from Cambodia fearing arrest and are now seeking to return with Sam Rainsy to rally support for their cause.
It was unclear if any of the opposition figures abroad would reach Cambodia for the planned demonstrations. Thailand said it will not allow transit for Sam Rainsy, and Malaysia this week detained two other opposition leaders trying to fly to Thailand.
Mu Sochua flew into Kuala Lumpur on her US passport and was being detained at the airport.
Mahathir said Malaysia was bound by its principle of non-interference in neighbours' affairs in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
"We do not want to let them to use Malaysia as a base for struggle in other countries," Mahathir told reporters. "We wanted to deport her ... now we are trying to find any country that can take her."
The United States was ware of the situation, a US government spokesman said. He would not comment further due to privacy restrictions.
READ: Thai PM says Cambodian opposition leader Rainsy not allowed to transit
'WHAT DO THEY FEAR?'
A former women's minister, Mu Sochua is vice president of the banned Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) and one of the highest-profile opposition leaders detained in Hun Sen's efforts to prevent their return.
Thailand denied her entry on Oct 20.
On Wednesday, she held a news conference in Indonesia to denounce a crackdown by Cambodian authorities, who have arrested at least 48 opposition activists at home this year and deployed troops along the borders in recent weeks.
"What do they fear?" she asked. "They totally fear the determination of the people of Cambodia, who are responding positively to our appeal, which is that together we will build a better Cambodia."
She later flew to Malaysia, where she was detained.
Mu Sochua fled Cambodia in 2017 amid a mass crackdown on the opposition. The party's leader, Kem Sokha, was arrested on treason charges and remains under house arrest.
Cambodia's Supreme Court later dissolved the CNRP. The party of Hun Sen, who has ruled Cambodia for more than three decades, went on to win all the seats in parliament in a general election last year.
'SPIRIT OF ASEAN'
Mu Sochua's news conference in Jakarta was interrupted by the Cambodian ambassador, who argued she should not be given a forum.
The Cambodian embassy later asked Indonesia to arrest her "in the true spirit of ASEAN", it said in a statement, adding that similar requests had been made to neighbouring countries.
Cambodian national police spokesman Chhay Kim Khoeun said Mu Sochua had been charged in connection with a plot to topple the government.
Her treatment was condemned by the ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR) as a "complete disregard" for democracy.
"It is outrageous that Malaysia and other ASEAN countries are doing the dirty bidding of their counterparts fearful of legitimate political opposition," said APHR board member Kasit Piromya.


Log Clustering based Problem Identification for Online Service Systems (ICSE '16)
Authors: Qingwei Lin, Hongyu Zhang, Jian-Guang Lou, Yu Zhang, Xuewei Chen
Presenter: Xingan Wang
TOC
- Background and Motivation
- The Approach
- Experimental Design and Results
- Discussion and Lessons Learned
Background and Motivation
ICSE’13 approach has limitations
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Precision is still rather low (range from 10% to 38%)
It does not consider the potential similarity between two log sequences when they are not repetition or permutation of each other.
But log sequences are highly diverse and log events are not equal in importance.
> “E1, E2, E3, E3, E5, E6” and “E1, E3, E5, E2, E6” are reduced to be the same
⇒ Add weiting to vectorization.
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Not utilizing the previous known failures
ICSE’13 approach requires the engineers to examine all delta sequences.
Many of the failures are recurrent ones, whose mitigations/resolutions are already known to the engineers and whose corresponding logs need not to be examined again.
⇒ Update knowledge base to alleviate the efforts.
Log Cluster
- Utilizes the characteristics of logs of online service systems to facilitate log- based problem identification.
- Addresses the limitations of the previous approaches and outperforms them.
The Approach
Major steps
- Log Vectorization: Turn each log sequence into a vector.
- Log Clustering: Calculate the similarity value between two log sequences and group the similar log sequences into clusters.
- Extracting Representative Log Sequence: Select a representative log sequence from each cluster by choosing the centroid of the cluster.
- Checks if a representative log sequence appears before by querying a knowledge base.
- The knowledge base is also updated with the new clusters.
Log Vectorization
- Parse free-form raw log messages using log abstraction
- Produces log sequences by deduplicating and linking same ID
- Weighting with Inverse Document Frequency and Contrast: \[w(t) = 0.5 × Norm(w_{idf}(t)) + 0.5 × w_{con}(t)\]
After calculating the weight for each event, we can represent a log sequence as a vector of weight in an N-dimensional space.
Log Clustering
(Agglomerative Hierarchical clustering)
\[Similarity(S_i, S_j) = \frac{S_i \cdot \S_j}{\|S_i\|\|S_j\|}\]
Extracting Representative Log Sequence
Compute the score of each log sequence i in a cluster based on its average distance to other log sequences in the same cluster:
\[Score(i) = \frac{1}{n-1}\sum^{n}_{j=1}(1 − Similarity(S_i, S_j))\]
Select the log sequence with the minimal score for manual examination.
Checking Recurrence
- Select representative log sequence of the new cluster.
- Use same cosine similarity measure with existing knowledge base.
- If recurrent and corresponds to a known failure, the associated mitigation actions are retrieved from the knowledge base.
- New representative is returned for manual examination and update the knowledge base.
Experiments
- Same application: WordCount, PageRank
- Two addition Microsoft Services added(X and Y).
- Collect: Hadoop logs, MS services logs (3.3m from X, 10m from Y)
- Hardware: A cluster with 46 cores across ﬁve machines. Each PC has Intel(R) Core(TM) i7- 3770 CPU and 16GB RAM.
Results
- RQ1: How much effort reduction does LogCluster achieve?
- RQ2: How accurate is LogCluster in identifying problems?
- RQ3: The impact of the distance threshold
Measured in terms of #log sequences to be examined. Numbers in brackets indicate the precision values (i.e., the percentage of examined log sequences that are associated with the actual failures).
> LogCluster achieves the best overall accuracy. And is insensitive to the distance threshold.
Discussion and Lessons Learned
Log Severity Levels
- For logs generated by Microsoft Product K, only a small percentage (<10%) of high severe logs are related to the actual system failures, and many (>30%) failures are associated with logs that have low severity levels.
- A failure that is considered critical to one component may not affect the whole distributed system.
- ⇒LogCluster does not rely on log severity levels. It is based on abstraction and clustering of log sequences, therefore avoiding the limitations of using log severity levels.
Permutations of a Log Sequence
- Means: “E1, E2, E3, E5, E6” and “E1, E3, E5, E2, E6” are same.
- Multithreading service causes interleaving logs even for the same user request.
- ⇒Both ICSE’13 work and this paper do not consider permutations.
Deployment Failures of Online Service Systems
- Online service system initially launched, many failures are related tofunctional features.
- When stable, deployment failures account for a large percentage of failures of online service systems, such as issues in network connection, DNS, configuration, hardware, etc.
- Using LogCluster, developers can quickly detect the recurrent deployment failures and find mitigation solutions from the knowledge base,
Analysis of LogCluster
- Log parsing accounts for a large portion of computation time of LogCluster.
⇒ Good practice to directly add a log event ID.
- Log data is huge: TB or PB per day. THe log analysis itself is computed distributly
⇒ Select Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm rather than K-Means, K-Medoids, DBSCAN


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After another batch of fixes, tweaks, and buckets of polish, we’ve prepared the hopefully last step before 2.0 can go final: Release Candidate 2. If nothing major pops up, expect the final version to land within the next week or two at the most.
As usual, we got the latest gems on the gems.rubyonrails.org server and there’s a RC2 tag as well. Please put this final test through the ringer so we can get a clean 2.0.0 final release.
If you haven’t kept up to date on what’s new in 2.0, have a look at the original preview release announcement. The gem version for this release is 1.99.1. Enjoy!


Atlanta Falcons owner to donate $6.8M for international aid
by SUDHIN THANAWALAATLANTA (AP) - The billionaire owner of the Atlanta Falcons is making his first major drive into international philanthropy.
The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation is expected to announce Thursday that it’s donating $6.8 million to the aid group CARE. The money will fund efforts to avert humanitarian crises abroad and support a village savings program in Africa.
The foundation has helped numerous charities in Atlanta and elsewhere in the U.S. since its founding in 1995. The CARE grant is its first large-scale international project.
Blank - a co-founder of Home Depot Inc. - bought the Falcons football team in 2002 and also owns the Atlanta United soccer team. His family and foundation have donated more than $400 million to charities, according to the foundation’s website.
Blank said in an email that the CARE grant is a “natural extension” of the foundation’s work.
“The challenges being addressed by our Family Foundation - poverty, human rights, climate change - are global,” he said.
Blank’s gift will allow CARE, which is also based in Atlanta, to expand its village savings and loan program in Tanzania and Malawi and launch a savings and loan program in Nigeria, CARE CEO Michelle Nunn said in a telephone interview.
Villagers pool their savings to provide interest-bearing loans to members to start small businesses and pay for health care and education. CARE provides training in governance, group dynamics and money management.
The programs serve nearly 7.6 million people in 51 countries, most of them women, according to CARE.
Nunn said Blank’s donation will allow CARE to serve more than 1 million additional women.
The savings and loan programs are “very resonant with Arthur’s sense of entrepreneurship” and his support for women’s empowerment, Nunn said. She said she’s known Blank for decades.
“He’s always had a global mindset,” Nunn said.
Blank will also serve as co-chairman of a new CARE committee in Atlanta that will help the organization plan for the future.
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I believe in always improving.
Whether it’s training physically, such as for sports or one’s health, emotionally, wherein one learns from experiences and how to better treat others and themselves, or mentally, such as in growth of knowledge and experience, improvement is what ties each day into the next.
The feeling of accomplishment that comes from evidence of improvement is one of my biggest motivators. If today I am better than yesterday, chances are it’s a good day. If tomorrow I’ll be further along on a project, have a better understanding of a class, or even just have another day of experience in something, that’s often enough to keep me going through the day. Better is better, and better is motivating.
Whether it’s training physically, such as for sports or one’s health, emotionally, wherein one learns from experiences and how to better treat others and themselves, or mentally, such as in growth of knowledge and experience, improvement is what ties each day into the next.
The feeling of accomplishment that comes from evidence of improvement is one of my biggest motivators. If today I am better than yesterday, chances are it’s a good day. If tomorrow I’ll be further along on a project, have a better understanding of a class, or even just have another day of experience in something, that’s often enough to keep me going through the day. Better is better, and better is motivating.
Whether it’s training physically, such as for sports or one’s health, emotionally, wherein one learns from experiences and how to better treat others and themselves, or mentally, such as in growth of knowledge and experience, improvement is what ties each day into the next.
The feeling of accomplishment that comes from evidence of improvement is one of my biggest motivators. If today I am better than yesterday, chances are it’s a good day. If tomorrow I’ll be further along on a project, have a better understanding of a class, or even just have another day of experience in something, that’s often enough to keep me going through the day. Better is better, and better is motivating.


A little about me I was born in Peru but my family imigrated to the United states when I was quite young. I grew up in California but now live in sunny Florida. Growing up with dual cultures is what inspired me to discover as many new cultures as I can. I am absolutly fascianted by how people from different places live.
My skills I've always had an artistic side, but I never imagine I would be able to express my creativity through tech. It wasn't until I comepletely revamped a website for a business owner who wasn't very tech saavy, that I realized how much creativity and skill web design/develement requires. From then on, it was love at first code
My Goals My current goals in my career involve getting hired by an amazing web development company with an international presence and remote work opportunities. Mentorship and opportunity to further my skills is a big plus for me.


A freeform project is defined to be a directory containing a subdirectory named
nbproject
inside of which is a file project.xml
matching the pattern
<project xmlns="http://www.netbeans.org/ns/project/1"> <type>org.netbeans.modules.ant.freeform</type> <configuration> <!-- metadata blocks … --> </configuration> </project>
The metadata blocks must consist of at least a <general-data>
section, and
possibly some domain-specific sections such as <java-data>
in different
namespaces. The currently available XML schemas for validation are as follows:
Revisions of schemas are marked numerically, so …/freeform-project-java/2.xsd
is an updated variant of …/freeform-project-java/1.xsd
. The namespaces defined
by the schemas are the same as the above URLs but without the .xsd
suffix.
Other than project.xml
, there is no mandatory layout for a freeform project
(hence its name!). It is common for there to be an Ant build script named
build.xml
at top level but this is not required.
The behavior of the project inside the IDE is controlled by the contents of
project.xml
, together with any other files referenced by it. The permitted
metadata sections are described in turn, followed by "best-practices"
recommendations on how the complete project should be structured.


Information about a Pleora Protocol device. More...
Public Member Functions | |
| PvString | GetMACAddress () const |
| Get the Pleora Protocol device's MAC address. More... | |
| PvString | GetIPAddress () const |
| Get the Pleora Protocol device's current IP address. More... | |
| PvString | GetSubnetMask () const |
| Get the Pleora Protocol device's subnet mask. More... | |
| PvString | GetDefaultGateway () const |
| Get the Pleora Protocol device's default gateway. More... | |
| uint8_t | GetDeviceID () const |
| Returns the Device ID of the Pleora Protocol device. More... | |
| uint8_t | GetModuleID () const |
| Returns the Module ID of the Pleora Protocol device. More... | |
| uint8_t | GetSubID () const |
| Returns the Sub ID of the Pleora Protocol device. More... | |
| uint8_t | GetVendorID () const |
| Returns the Vendor ID of the Pleora Protocol device. More... | |
| uint8_t | GetSoftwareMajor () const |
| Major version of the firmware running on the Pleora Protocol device. More... | |
| uint8_t | GetSoftwareMinor () const |
| Minor version of the firmware running on the Pleora Protocol device. More... | |
| Public Member Functions inherited from PvDeviceInfo | |
| virtual | ~PvDeviceInfo () |
| Destructor. | |
| PvDeviceInfoType | GetType () const |
| Returns the type of the device info object. More... | |
| PvString | GetVendorName () const |
| Get the device's manufacturer name. More... | |
| PvString | GetModelName () const |
| Get the device's model name. More... | |
| PvString | GetVersion () const |
| Get the device's version. More... | |
| PvString | GetManufacturerInfo () const |
| Get the manufacturer information returned by the device. More... | |
| PvString | GetSerialNumber () const |
| Get the GigE Vision device's serial number. More... | |
| PvString | GetUserDefinedName () const |
| Get the device's user defined name. More... | |
| PvString | GetDisplayID () const |
| Get a string identifying this device for display purpose. More... | |
| PvString | GetUniqueID () const |
| Get a string uniquely identifying this device. More... | |
| PvString | GetConnectionID () const |
| Get a unique string identifying this device for connection purpose. More... | |
| const PvInterface * | GetInterface () const |
| Get the network adapter (PvInterface) through which this device was reached. More... | |
| bool | IsConfigurationValid () const |
| Test if the device can be reached as currently configured. More... | |
| bool | IsLicenseValid () const |
| Test if the eBUS SDK license is valid for this device. More... | |
| PvDeviceClass | GetClass () const |
| Get the device class. More... | |
Protected Member Functions | |
| PvDeviceInfoPleoraProtocol (PvDeviceLib::DeviceInfo *aThis) | |
| Constructor. | |
| virtual | ~PvDeviceInfoPleoraProtocol () |
| Destructor. | |
| Protected Member Functions inherited from PvDeviceInfo | |
| PvDeviceInfo (PvDeviceLib::DeviceInfo *aThis) | |
| Constructor. | |
Information about a Pleora Protocol device.
The eBUS SDK allows enumerating devices using the Pleora protocol. However, it does not allow connecting to or controlling these device.
| PvString PvDeviceInfoPleoraProtocol::GetDefaultGateway | ( | ) | const |
Get the Pleora Protocol device's default gateway.
| uint8_t PvDeviceInfoPleoraProtocol::GetDeviceID | ( | ) | const |
Returns the Device ID of the Pleora Protocol device.
| PvString PvDeviceInfoPleoraProtocol::GetIPAddress | ( | ) | const |
Get the Pleora Protocol device's current IP address.
| PvString PvDeviceInfoPleoraProtocol::GetMACAddress | ( | ) | const |
Get the Pleora Protocol device's MAC address.
| uint8_t PvDeviceInfoPleoraProtocol::GetModuleID | ( | ) | const |
Returns the Module ID of the Pleora Protocol device.
| uint8_t PvDeviceInfoPleoraProtocol::GetSoftwareMajor | ( | ) | const |
Major version of the firmware running on the Pleora Protocol device.
| uint8_t PvDeviceInfoPleoraProtocol::GetSoftwareMinor | ( | ) | const |
Minor version of the firmware running on the Pleora Protocol device.
| uint8_t PvDeviceInfoPleoraProtocol::GetSubID | ( | ) | const |
Returns the Sub ID of the Pleora Protocol device.
| PvString PvDeviceInfoPleoraProtocol::GetSubnetMask | ( | ) | const |
Get the Pleora Protocol device's subnet mask.
| uint8_t PvDeviceInfoPleoraProtocol::GetVendorID | ( | ) | const |
Returns the Vendor ID of the Pleora Protocol device.
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1. Pick a name for your campaign
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4. Start or Schedule
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| Modifier and Type | Constant Field | Value |
|---|---|---|
public static final String |
COL_BRACKET_HIGH_PREFIX |
"damtHigh" |
public static final String |
COL_BRACKET_LOW_PREFIX |
"damtLow" |
public static final String |
COL_BRACKET_RATE_PREFIX |
"dRate" |
public static final String |
COL_FILING_STATUS |
"szFull" |
| Modifier and Type | Constant Field | Value |
|---|---|---|
public static final String |
MNY_BACKUP_SUFFIX |
".mbf" |
public static final String |
MNY_SUFFIX |
".mny" |
| Modifier and Type | Constant Field | Value |
|---|---|---|
public static final String |
COL_DATE |
"dt" |
public static final String |
COL_PRICE |
"dPrice" |
public static final String |
COL_SEC_ID |
"hsec" |
| Modifier and Type | Constant Field | Value |
|---|---|---|
public static final String |
COL_ID |
"hTax Rate Custom Pool" |
public static final String |
COL_NAME |
"szFull" |
public static final String |
COL_TAX_YEAR |
"lTaxYear" |
public static final String |
TABLE_NAME_TAX_RATE |
"Tax Rate Custom Pool" |
| Modifier and Type | Constant Field | Value |
|---|---|---|
public static final String |
COL_ACCOUNT_ID |
"hacct" |
| Modifier and Type | Constant Field | Value |
|---|---|---|
public static final String |
LOCAL_LARGE_FILE_MNY |
"local/largeFile.mny" |
public static final String |
MONEY2001_PWD_MNY |
"money2001-pwd.mny" |
public static final String |
MONEY2002_MNY |
"money2002.mny" |
public static final String |
MONEY2004_PWD_MNY |
"money2004-pwd.mny" |
public static final String |
MONEY2005_PWD_MNY |
"money2005-pwd.mny" |
public static final String |
MONEY2008_PWD_MNY |
"money2008-pwd.mny" |
public static final String |
SUNSET_401K_MNY |
"sunset_401k.mny" |
public static final String |
SUNSET_BILL_MNY |
"sunset-bill.mny" |
public static final String |
SUNSET_SAMPLE_PWD_5_MNY |
"sunset-sample-pwd-5.mny" |
public static final String |
SUNSET_SAMPLE_PWD_6_MNY |
"sunset-sample-pwd-6.mny" |
public static final String |
SUNSET_SAMPLE_PWD_MNY |
"sunset-sample-pwd.mny" |
public static final String |
SUNSET_SAMPLE_PWD_MNY_PASSWORD |
"123@abc!" |
public static final String |
SUNSET01_MNY |
"sunset01.mny" |
public static final String |
SUNSET02_MNY |
"sunset02.mny" |
public static final String |
SUNSET03_XFER_MNY |
"sunset03-xfer.mny" |
| Modifier and Type | Constant Field | Value |
|---|---|---|
public static final double |
DEFAULT_FRQ_INSTRUCTION |
1.0 |
public static final int |
FRQ_DAILY |
1 |
public static final int |
FRQ_EVERY_3_MONTHS |
4 |
public static final int |
FRQ_MONTHLY |
3 |
public static final int |
FRQ_ONCE |
0 |
public static final int |
FRQ_WEEKLY |
2 |
public static final int |
FRQ_YEARLY |
5 |
| Modifier and Type | Constant Field | Value |
|---|---|---|
public static final int |
ADD_SHARES |
12 |
public static final int |
BUY |
1 |
public static final int |
DIVIDEND |
3 |
public static final int |
INTEREST |
4 |
public static final int |
L_TERM_CAP_GAINS_DIST |
26 |
public static final int |
REINVEST_DIVIDEND |
9 |
public static final int |
REINVEST_INTEREST |
10 |
public static final int |
REINVEST_L_TERM_CG_DIST |
29 |
public static final int |
REINVEST_S_TERM_CG_DIST |
27 |
public static final int |
REMOVE_SHARES |
13 |
public static final int |
RETURN_OF_CAPITAL |
8 |
public static final int |
S_TERM_CAP_GAINS_DIST |
24 |
public static final int |
SELL |
2 |
public static final int |
STOCK_OPTION_EXPIRE_ESOS |
20 |
public static final int |
STOCK_OPTION_GRANT |
17 |
public static final int |
STOCK_OPTION_VEST |
18 |
public static final int |
TRANSFER_SHARES_IN |
32 |
public static final int |
TRANSFER_SHARES_OUT |
33 |
| Modifier and Type | Constant Field | Value |
|---|---|---|
public static final String |
SUNSET_SAMPLE |
"+sunsetSample" |
Copyright © 2018. All rights reserved.


# INFO 450 Fall 2020
Week 11
Nov 5, 2020
--- # Agenda 1. APIs 2. Creating 3. Consuming --- # What is an API?
* Application Programming Interface * Act as a common interface between systems --- # HTTP / REST API Client - Server model for data/application Intended to be stateless (State is stored in a database potentially) HTTP Protocol (GET, POST, PATCH, DELETE) Client makes a request to the server, server responds with data/response --- # HTTP GET ``` GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com ``` HTTP GET Response: ``` HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 22:38:34 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Length: 155 Last-Modified: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 23:11:55 GMT Server: Apache/<IP_ADDRESS> (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) ETag: "3f80f-1b6-3e1cb03b" Accept-Ranges: bytes Connection: close
An Example Page
Hello World, this is a very simple HTML document.
``` --- # HTTP POST ``` POST /test HTTP/1.1 Host: foo.example Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 27 field1=value1&field2=value2 ``` HTTP POST Response: ``` {"key": "value"} ``` --- # How do we do that? Web Browser: URL location text: Enter a web site, http://www.google.com, and it issues an HTTP GET Website 'form' can issue an HTTP POST or GET cUrl: command line application, linux, C Library ```bash $ curl https://google.com
301 Moved
301 Moved
The document has moved
here
. ``` ```bash curl -d '{"key": "value"'}' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' https://example.com/login ``` --- # In Python * 'requests' package * Install via anaconda *
https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/
```python >>> r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/user', auth=('user', 'pass')) >>> r.status_code 200 >>> r.headers['content-type'] 'application/json; charset=utf8' >>> r.encoding 'utf-8' >>> r.text '{"type":"User"...' >>> r.json() {'private_gists': 419, 'total_private_repos': 77, ...} ``` ```python >>> r1 = requests.post('https://httpbin.org/post', data=payload_tuples) >>> payload_dict = {'key1': ['value1', 'value2']} >>> r2 = requests.post('https://httpbin.org/post', data=payload_dict) >>> print(r1.text) { ... "form": { "key1": [ "value1", "value2" ] }, ... } >>> r1.text == r2.text True ``` But let's look at the server side --- # Flask * `flask` package * Install via anaconda *
https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/1.1.x/
```python from flask import Flask app = Flask(__name__) @app.route('/') def hello_world(): return 'Hello, World!' ``` ```bash $ export FLASK_APP=hello.py $ flask run --host=<IP_ADDRESS> * Running on http://<IP_ADDRESS>:5000/ ``` --- # Routes ```python @app.route('/') def index(): return 'Index Page' @app.route('/hello') def hello(): return 'Hello, World' ``` ```bash $ curl http://localhost:5000/ Index Page $ curl http://localhost:5000/hello Hello, World ``` --- # Passing parameters ```python from markupsafe import escape @app.route('/user/
') def show_user_profile(username): # show the user profile for that user return 'User %s' % escape(username) @app.route('/post/
') def show_post(post_id): # show the post with the given id, the id is an integer return 'Post %d' % post_id @app.route('/path/
') def show_subpath(subpath): # show the subpath after /path/ return 'Subpath %s' % escape(subpath) ``` --- # Homework - .. but it's not due! We'll be doing a multi part homework, building on concepts, to get us to a 'final' project Create two python applications, put them in github: github.com/username/repository/final/client/client.py github.com/username/repository/final/server/server.py Client: * Must accept user input representing a 'name' * Must make HTTP GET call to server in the form of: http://localhost:5000/hello/{name} Server * Must accept a path /hello with a parameter for 'name' * Return value must be a dictionary with the key 'hello' and the value of the name url parameter * Server should listen on port 5000 We will build on this next week. Think about the data example we talked about before. How would you start to identify records in the data set? --- --- --- ---


Each predicate in a program is identified by its module, as well as by its name and arity.
A module defines a set of predicates, among which some have the property of being public. Public predicates are predicates that can be imported by other modules, which means that they can then be called from within those modules. Predicates that are not public are private to the module in which they are defined; that is, they cannot be called from outside that module (except by explicitly overriding the modularity rules as described in ref-mod-vis).
There are two kinds of importation:
Built-in predicates do not need to be imported; they are automatically available from within any module.
There is a special module called user
, which is used by default when
predicates are being defined and no other module has been specified.
The other predefined module is the prolog
module
where all the built-in predicates reside. The exported
built-in predicates are automatically imported into each new
module as it is created.
If you are using a program written by someone else, you need not be
concerned as to whether or not that program has been made into a module.
The act of loading a module from a file using compile/1
,
or ensure_loaded/1
(see ref-lod) will automatically import
all the public predicates in that module. Thus the command
:- ensure_loaded(library(basics)).
will load the basic list-processing predicates from the library and make them available.


This is only covered to a minimum level. For these services benefits payable are only enough to be treated as a private patient in a shared ward of a public hospital, not a private hospital.


JEF students have attended or are currently attending the institutions below:
- American University
- Bennett College
- Bowie State University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Central Florida University
- City University of New York/John Jay College of Criminal Justice
- Fisk University
- Florida A & M University
- Florida Memorial College
- George Mason University
- George Washington University
- Georgia Tech
- Hampton University
- Howard University
- Kentucky State University
- Mississippi Valley State University
- Montgomery College
- Morgan State University
- North Carolina A & T State University
- Oberlin College
- Pace University
- Prince Georges Community College
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Saint Augustine's College
- Strayer College
- Temple University
- University of the District of Columbia
- University of Maryland Baltimore County
- University of Maryland College Park
- University of Maryland Eastern Shore
- University of Virginia
- Virginia State University
- Virginia Tech
JEF students have been or are currently enrolled in the following majors:
- Anthropology
- Archaeology
- Biology
- Business Management
- Communications
- Computer Architecture
- Computer Science
- Criminal Justice
- Chemical Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Industrial Engineering
- Information Systems
- Mathematics
- Music
- Nursing
- Orthodontics
- Physical Therapy
- Pre-med
- Sociology
- Social Work


A Julia workshop in China was hosted by JuliaCN in Beijing on Aug 24, 2019. This is the 5th Julia workshop in China hosted by JuliaCN since 2016. We thank the Julia community and our kind sponsors: Colorful Clouds, Microsoft, Swarma club, and SyncedReview. We received over 100 registrations for this event, and roughly 50 offline participants. The online video stream had 1,600 live viewers.
These videos have been uploaded to Bilibili.com, and the related materials are uploaded to JuliaCN/MeetUpMaterials.
Jeff Bezanson announced the Julia Localization Prize, and each awardee was presented with a certificate of accomplishment signed by Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski and Viral Shah. The following outstanding contributors also received a cash prize of $150:
@June-6th (Jun-Jie Cai) and @wood (Wei-ming Zhao): For their outstanding contributions to translation of the Julia documentation, which not only benefits Chinese users, but also helps Korean and other Asian language users through better results from Google Translate.
@Gnimuc: For his contribution of JuliaCN's localization infrastructure.
@Jun (Jun Tian): For his contribution to JuliaCN's infrastructure including discourse and documentation.
Contributors to the documentation who received the certificate of accomplishment include:
New documentation: @Yoshiera, @woclass, @zhangkaihua88, @zxj5470, @davelet, @shang.zd, @Kyoko_Sakura, @cherichy, @sukanka, @ciaranchen, @lwoo1999
Old documentation: @autozimu, @GaZ3ll3, @morvinzha, @nanxstats, @wlbksy, @sunoru, @XD-DENG, @KDr2, @zhx2013, @dovahcrow, @yuyichao, @yfractal
The certificates have been mailed to the awardees. Please contact @Roger-luo if we missed you!
Yingbo Ma, Differential Equations Meets Machine Learning
Jin-guo Liu, Yao.jl: Quantum Computing Meets Machine Learning
Yueh-Hua Tu, GeometricFlux.jl: Geometric Deep Learning with Flux
Thautwarm, MLStyle.jl: The application of advanced functional programming in Julia
Jiu-ning Chen: Images.jl: image processing in Julia (GSoC 2019)
夏恋花火: 5v5 FIRA game in Julia
Mike Innes: Zygote: Building a Differentiable Programming Language
We conducted a survey and 36 attendees responded to the survey:
15 people just started learning Julia, 15 people start learning Julia after 1.0, 6 people knew Julia before v0.6.
men:women = 35:1
bachelors:masters:PhD = 13:15:8 (education background)
background (number of people)
machine learning (15)
finance (5)
bioinformatics (3)
computer vision (3)
others (10)
26 people find Chinese discourse useful, 10 people do not use discourse
10 people expect more online events, 10 people expect more offline events
After the workshop, we discussed how to grow the Julia community in China, and we are planning to do the following:
regular online talks
offline hackthons
beginner projects
documentation translation
First Julia PR
Collecting Good First Issues
long term mentorship
See you next year in China!


Expand is an e-learning framework which allows you to build SCORM conformant e-learning courses using web technologies rather than authoring tools.
Benefits of Expand include:
- Fully responsive
- Bootstrap included
- Doesn't reload browser upon every page load
- SCORM 1.2 conformant
- Bookmarking automatically handled
- Easily publish a SCORM zip with a single command line
- Endless possibilities for development
Read the Expand documentation on Github using the following link:


Match play. Double Match Point. How should Red play 61?
pips Red=89 White=84
(CorrectAnswer= 0/0, ErrorScore= 0)
This is a pay-me-now, pay-me-later problem and against a five-point board it is normally correct to pay later. This position is no exception, and the correct play is 14/7.
14/8, 3/2 and 14/8, 2/1 are also OK.
Any play involving 20/14 is a bad error.
I got this completely wrong over the board and moved 20/14, 2/1. Giving White seventeen hitting numbers is just way too many.
14/8, 3/2 and 14/8, 2/1 are also OK.
Any play involving 20/14 is a bad error.
I got this completely wrong over the board and moved 20/14, 2/1. Giving White seventeen hitting numbers is just way too many.
1. Cubeful 2-ply 14/7 Eq.: -0.343 0.329 0.012 0.000 - 0.671 0.067 0.001 2. Cubeful 2-ply 14/8 3/2 Eq.: -0.349 (-0.007) 0.325 0.012 0.000 - 0.675 0.070 0.001 3. Cubeful 2-ply 14/8 2/1 Eq.: -0.354 (-0.011) 0.323 0.013 0.000 - 0.677 0.075 0.002 4. Cubeful 2-ply 14/8 4/3 Eq.: -0.373 (-0.031) 0.313 0.010 0.000 - 0.687 0.077 0.001 5. Cubeful 2-ply 20/14 2/1 Eq.: -0.408 (-0.066) 0.296 0.027 0.000 - 0.704 0.124 0.001


Cookie Collector 3DS was made in 2016 as a test of 3DS Homebrew Libraries. You can download the game here.
Cookie Collector 3DS was made in 2016 as a test of 3DS Homebrew Libraries. You can download the game here.
You can use the source as a way of learning a bit of C with the 3DS, but I would not play it.  Alternatives to this game includes:
Creckeryop's Cookie Clicker
TheMachinumps' Cookie Clicker 3DS
Grab a release file from the releases page, or compile the code yourself. Place the 3DSX and SDMH in /root/3DS/games/CookieCollector/
Your files should look like this:
/root
/3DS
/games
/CookieCollector
CookieCollector.3DSX
CookieCollector.SDMH
Run the CookieCollector.3DSX file in the Homebrew Launcher, from an entrypoint of your choice. Have fun.
Clone the repo, and unzip it somewhere. Make a new directory labelled 'source', and place 'main.c' in there. CD to the root of the repo, and run 'make'. Once it has finished, it will produce an ELF and a 3DSX file of the same name. Grab the SDMH from the releases page, and then use that instead of the generated one.
This assumes you have installed the necessary libraries and DevkitPro.
Thanks to:
The Machinumps
LiquidFenrir
Swiftloke
Realtime
The game has a version being developed in Spritetools. It is far behind, as I do not know how to use Spritetools. The current release is a beta that does not function as intended. Feel free to report errors and solutions in the Issue tracker.
To access the latest Spritetools version, there will be separate releases for them. For the code, it is stored in a separate branch, labeled SpriteTools.


WITNESS LIST
Defense & Veterans' Affairs Committee
October 8, 2014 - 10:00 AM
Charge 3 - Relating to Veteran Homelessness
On:
Bishop ll, Charles (Self; Save our soldiers now)
Cabello, Homero (Texas Dept of Housing and Community Affairs)
Long, David (TX State Affordable Housing Corporation)
Martin, Ken (Texas Homeless Network)
McCoy, Shawn (Haven For Hope)
Mitchell, Thomas (Self; United states veterans initiative)
Morin, Evita (Haven for Hope)
Noland, Christa (Green Doors)
Palladino, Thomas (Texas Veterans Commission)
Stanford Jr, John (USVETS)
Registering, but not testifying:
On:
Dodson, Mary (Self; Texas Homeless Network)
Dorsey, Cameron (Texas department of housing and community affairs)
Williford, Jeff (Texas Veterans Commission)
Wood, Kathy (Texas Veterans Commission)
Charge 5 - Relating to Higher Education for Veterans
On:
Bosquez, Vincent (Alamo colleges)
Jacquez, Elvira (UTSA)
Klincar, Thomas (Central Texas College)
Little, Morgan (Self; Tx coalition for veterans)
Moreno, Judy (Utsa)
Paiz, Marie (Texas Lutheran University)
Palladino, Thomas (Texas Veterans Commission)
Paredes, Raymund (Texas higher education coordinating board)
Ragler Jr, Horace (North Lake College Veterans Affairs Center)
Rodriguez, Charles (Texas A&M University-San Antonio)
Silva, Adelina (Lina) (Alamo Colleges)
Van Dusen, Ryan (Texas Tech University)
Yost, Billy (North Lake College)
Registering, but not testifying:
On:
Coburn, Rufus (Texas Veterans Commission)
Morales-Vale, Suzanne (Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board)
1


Chat App
Chat Commands
command: "/nick 'user name'"
Changes your user name
command: "/join 'room name'"
Changes your room. If room doesnt exist creates one.
Rooms
Users Online
Users in current room
Messages from server:
Messages:


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Vibrational spectra for ε, β, γ and ζ polymorphs of CL-20 crystals. The characteristic peaks of the vibrational spectra are marked by vertical red lines and are indexed by blue texts. For each of the four polymorphs, the molecular conformation and the temperature ( T initiation ) the crystal starts to decay under shock are also shown.


25 October 2000
Disease Outbreak Reported
As of 25 October, the Ugandan Ministry of Health has reported 176 cases, including 64 deaths.
There have been suspected cases reported from several settlements for internally displaced persons in Gulu district and mobile teams of health care workers and volunteers are carrying out case finding and contact tracing in these settlements. The focus is also on increasing public awareness of the disease and its containment.
A radio communications centre has been established in Gulu. Twenty hand-held radios with a dedicated frequency have been dispersed to the mobile teams who are now able to inform the centre quickly of suspected cases and contacts, request transport for ill persons and request burial teams.
To date, the National Task Force for the Control of Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers has not confirmed any cases outside Gulu district in Uganda. WHO supports enhanced surveillance but does not recommend any special restrictions on travel or trade with Uganda.


The elix-modes component below shows a single selected page out of a set of pages. It provides no user interface of its own. Below, it's been combined with mixins that provide lateral navigation with the keyboard.


--- redirect_from: /docs/latest/classes/state.stateobject.html ---
Prototypally inherits from StateDeclaration.abstract
Prototypally inherits from StateDeclaration.data
Note: This is the only field on the StateDeclaration which is mutated.
The definition object's data
field is replaced with a new object
which prototypally inherits from the parent state definition's data
field.
An object containing the parent States' names as keys and true as their values.
Prototypally inherits from StateDeclaration.lazyLoad
The name used to register the state
The nearest parent StateObject which has a URL
Prototypally inherits from StateDeclaration.onEnter
Prototypally inherits from StateDeclaration.onExit
Prototypally inherits from StateDeclaration.onRetain
The parameters for the state, built from the URL and StateDeclaration.params
The parent StateObject
The parent StateObject objects from this state up to the root
Prototypally inherits from StateDeclaration.redirectTo
A list of Resolvable objects. The internal representation of resolve.
Prototypally inherits from StateDeclaration.resolve
Prototypally inherits from StateDeclaration.resolvePolicy
The original StateDeclaration used to build this StateObject.
Note: this
object also prototypally inherits from the self
declaration object.
A compiled URLMatcher which detects when the state's URL is matched
The views for the state.
Note: @uirouter/core
does not register a builder for views.
The framework specific code should register a views
builder.
Returns a dot-separated name of the state.
Returns true if the provided parameter is the same state.
Returns true if the provided parameter is the same state.
Compares the identity of the state against the passed value, which is either an object
reference to the actual State
instance, the original definition object passed to
$stateProvider.state()
, or the fully-qualified name.
Can be one of (a) a State
instance, (b) an object that was passed
into $stateProvider.state()
, (c) the fully-qualified name of a state as a string.
Returns true
if ref
matches the current State
instance.
Returns a single Param that is owned by the state
Gets the state's Param
objects
Gets the state's Param
objects
Gets the list of Param objects owned by the state.
If opts.inherit
is true, it also includes the ancestor states' Param objects.
If opts.matchingKeys
exists, returns only Param
s whose id
is a key on the matchingKeys
object
options
Returns the root node of this state's tree.
Returns the root node of this state's tree.
The root of this state's tree.
Create a state object to put the private/internal implementation details onto. The object's prototype chain looks like: (Internal State Object) -> (Copy of State.prototype) -> (State Declaration object) -> (State Declaration's prototype...)
Create a state object to put the private/internal implementation details onto. The object's prototype chain looks like: (Internal State Object) -> (Copy of State.prototype) -> (State Declaration object) -> (State Declaration's prototype...)
the user-supplied State Declaration
an internal State object
Predicate which returns true if the object is an internal StateObject object
Predicate which returns true if the object is an internal StateObject object
Predicate which returns true if the object is an class with @State() decorator
Predicate which returns true if the object is an class with @State() decorator
Generated using TypeDoc
Internal representation of a UI-Router state.
Instances of this class are created when a StateDeclaration is registered with the StateRegistry.
A registered StateDeclaration is augmented with a getter (StateDeclaration.$$state) which returns the corresponding StateObject object.
This class prototypally inherits from the corresponding StateDeclaration. Each of its own properties (i.e.,
hasOwnProperty
) are built using builders from the StateBuilder.


--- layout: apidoc title: Tile5 API Documentation ---
extends: T5.Shape
This is a special type of T5.Poly that will take positions for the first
argument of the constructor rather than vectors. If the initialization
parameter autoParse
is set to true (which it is by default), this will
parsed by the T5.Geo.Position.parse function and converted into a GeoXY.
new T5.GeoShape(positions, params);


SHA-1 type size size-in-pack-file offset-in-packfile
git-verify-pack(1) Manual Page
NAME
git-verify-pack - Validate packed Git archive files
SYNOPSIS
git verify-pack [-v|--verbose] [-s|--stat-only] [--] <pack>.idx ...
DESCRIPTION
Reads given idx file for packed Git archive created with the git pack-objects command and verifies idx file and the corresponding pack file.
OPTIONS
- <pack>.idx ...
The idx files to verify.
- -v
- --verbose
After verifying the pack, show list of objects contained in the pack and a histogram of delta chain length.
- -s
- --stat-only
Do not verify the pack contents; only show the histogram of delta chain length. With --verbose, list of objects is also shown.
- --
Do not interpret any more arguments as options.
OUTPUT FORMAT
When specifying the -v option the format used is:
for objects that are not deltified in the pack, and
SHA-1 type size size-in-packfile offset-in-packfile depth base-SHA-1
for objects that are deltified.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite


ReduxStoreBase
open class ReduxStoreBase<ActionType, StateType> : ReduxStoreProtocol
🏪 ReduxStoreBase
is a base class that can be used to create the main store of an app, using the redux pattern.
A store should have a single input and a single output, being the input the method to handle actions dispatched by the
counterparts, and the output the state that can be observed by them. For that reason, a StoreType
protocol is nothing
but a composition of two other protocols: ActionHandler
and StateProvider
:
- as
ActionHandler
, which represents the store input, it’s gonna be able to receive and distribute action of a generic typeActionType
. Being an action handler means that anUIViewController
or SwiftUIView
can dispatch actions to it, such as.saveButtonTapped
,.didScrollToPosition(y)
,.viewDidLoad
or.queryTextFieldChanged(text)
. - as
StateProvider
, which represents the store output, it’s gonna be able to offer to the system a way to subscribe for updates on State. Being a state provider basically means that a store has astatePublisher
that is either aObservable<StateType>
,SignalProducer<StateType, Never>
orPublisher<StateType, Never>
depending on the reactive framework of your choice, so anUIViewController
can subscribe to state changes and react to them, or a SwiftUI View can use it as aObservedObject
.
This type of store will glue all the parts together and its responsibility is owning the main state, which means the only source-of-truth an app can have, besides of coordinating the sequence of operations that will be triggered once a new action arrives from views or middlewares. It’s highly recommended that your app should have only a single instance of this class and, directly or indirectly, all the other parts of your app will react to the state notifications sent by this instance.
That means that other types of store can act as a proxy to this one, but none of them should hold any state. For more
information on that please check StoreProjection
.
You can think of Store as a very heavy “Model” layer, completely detached from the Views, Controllers, Presenters etc.,
and where all the business logic stands. At a first sight it may look like transferring the “Massive” problem from a
layer to another, but the store actually won’t have any of this logic, only coordinate the multiple entities that do
that. These entities are Middleware
and Reducer
, and you can learn more about them in their own documentation.
The ReduxStoreBase
has a pipeline of middlewares and reducers. Upon an action arrival, which first is bottlenecked
into a serial queue, every middleware will have the chance to handle the action, and trigger side-effects in response.
These middlewares also have read-only access to the state at any point, and can dispatch new actions to the beginning
of the process at any point. Once all middlewares were informed about the action, now your reducers will have the
chance to act. The reducers can’t trigger side-effects or do any async operation, all they do is calculating a new
version of the app state from the old version of the app state plus the action. One-by-one the reducers will shape the
new state, accumulatively. When they are done, the store publishes the final state as the new one, and notifies all the
subscribers.
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┃ │└───┘ └───┘ └───┘│ state ┃░
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┃ ┃░
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By using this architecture, your model gets completely detached from the UIKit
/SwiftUI
world. And your UI gets
completely independent from side-effects, state mutations, threading, ownership, logic, logs, analytics and everything
other than UI. No more dependency injection for your views, they only need to know about the store (the main one or
a derived view store).
-
Pipeline to execute upon action arrival, containing all middlewares and reducers
Declaration
Swift
public let pipeline: ReduxPipelineWrapper<AnyMiddleware<ActionType, ActionType, StateType>>
-
State publisher which can be subscribed in order to be notified on every mutation
Declaration
Swift
public let statePublisher: UnfailablePublisherType<StateType>
-
Required initializer that configures the action handler pipeline and the state storage
Declaration
Swift
public init<M: MiddlewareProtocol>( subject: UnfailableReplayLastSubjectType<StateType>, reducer: Reducer<ActionType, StateType>, middleware: M, emitsValue: ShouldEmitValue<StateType> = .always ) where M.InputActionType == ActionType, M.InputActionType == M.OutputActionType, M.StateType == StateType
Parameters
subject
a reactive subject type that replays the last value, never fails and works on
StateType
elements. It should contain the initial state already.reducer
a reducer function wrapped in a monoid container of type
Reducer
, able to handle the state of the typeStateType
and actions of typeActionType
. Forreducer
composition, please use the diamond operator (<>
) and for reducers that understand only a sub-state part, use thelift
functions to elevate them to the same global state and global action type.middleware
a middleware pipeline, that can be any flat middleware or a
ComposedMiddleware
, as long as it’s able to handle the state of typeStateType
and actions of typeActionType
. Formiddleware
composition, please use the diamond operator (<>
) and for middlewares that understand only a sub-state part, use thelift
functions to elevate them to the same global state and global action type.


Working with filesystems¶
Contents
This tutorial describes how MicroPython provides an on-device filesystem, allowing standard Python file I/O methods to be used with persistent storage.
MicroPython automatically creates a default configuration and auto-detects the primary filesystem, so this tutorial will be mostly useful if you want to modify the partitioning, filesystem type, or use custom block devices.
The filesystem is typically backed by internal flash memory on the device, but can also use external flash, RAM, or a custom block device.
On some ports (e.g. STM32), the filesystem may also be available over USB MSC to a host PC. The pyboard.py tool also provides a way for the host PC to access to the filesystem on all ports.
Note: This is mainly for use on bare-metal ports like STM32 and ESP32. On ports with an operating system (e.g. the Unix port) the filesystem is provided by the host OS.
VFS¶
MicroPython implements a Unix-like Virtual File System (VFS) layer. All mounted
filesystems are combined into a single virtual filesystem, starting at the root
/
. Filesystems are mounted into directories in this structure, and at
startup the working directory is changed to where the primary filesystem is
mounted.
On STM32 / Pyboard, the internal flash is mounted at /flash
, and optionally
the SDCard at /sd
. On ESP8266/ESP32, the primary filesystem is mounted at
/
.
Block devices¶
A block device is an instance of a class that implements the
uos.AbstractBlockDev
protocol.
Built-in block devices¶
Ports provide built-in block devices to access their primary flash.
On power-on, MicroPython will attempt to detect the filesystem on the default flash and configure and mount it automatically. If no filesystem is found, MicroPython will attempt to create a FAT filesystem spanning the entire flash. Ports can also provide a mechanism to “factory reset” the primary flash, usually by some combination of button presses at power on.
STM32 / Pyboard¶
The pyb.Flash class provides access to the internal flash. On some
boards which have larger external flash (e.g. Pyboard D), it will use that
instead. The start
kwarg should always be specified, i.e.
pyb.Flash(start=0)
.
Note: For backwards compatibility, when constructed with no arguments (i.e.
pyb.Flash()
), it only implements the simple block interface and reflects the
virtual device presented to USB MSC (i.e. it includes a virtual partition table
at the start).
ESP8266¶
The internal flash is exposed as a block device object which is created in the
flashbdev
module on start up. This object is by default added as a global
variable so it can usually be accessed simply as bdev
. This implements the
extended interface.
ESP32¶
The esp32.Partition
class implements a block device for partitions
defined for the board. Like ESP8266, there is a global variable bdev
which
points to the default partition. This implements the extended interface.
Custom block devices¶
The following class implements a simple block device that stores its data in
RAM using a bytearray
:
class RAMBlockDev:
def __init__(self, block_size, num_blocks):
self.block_size = block_size
self.data = bytearray(block_size * num_blocks)
def readblocks(self, block_num, buf):
for i in range(len(buf)):
buf[i] = self.data[block_num * self.block_size + i]
def writeblocks(self, block_num, buf):
for i in range(len(buf)):
self.data[block_num * self.block_size + i] = buf[i]
def ioctl(self, op, arg):
if op == 4: # get number of blocks
return len(self.data) // self.block_size
if op == 5: # get block size
return self.block_size
It can be used as follows:
import os
bdev = RAMBlockDev(512, 50)
os.VfsFat.mkfs(bdev)
os.mount(bdev, '/ramdisk')
An example of a block device that supports both the simple and extended
interface (i.e. both signatures and behaviours of the
uos.AbstractBlockDev.readblocks()
and
uos.AbstractBlockDev.writeblocks()
methods) is:
class RAMBlockDev:
def __init__(self, block_size, num_blocks):
self.block_size = block_size
self.data = bytearray(block_size * num_blocks)
def readblocks(self, block_num, buf, offset=0):
addr = block_num * self.block_size + offset
for i in range(len(buf)):
buf[i] = self.data[addr + i]
def writeblocks(self, block_num, buf, offset=None):
if offset is None:
# do erase, then write
for i in range(len(buf) // self.block_size):
self.ioctl(6, block_num + i)
offset = 0
addr = block_num * self.block_size + offset
for i in range(len(buf)):
self.data[addr + i] = buf[i]
def ioctl(self, op, arg):
if op == 4: # block count
return len(self.data) // self.block_size
if op == 5: # block size
return self.block_size
if op == 6: # block erase
return 0
As it supports the extended interface, it can be used with littlefs
:
import os
bdev = RAMBlockDev(512, 50)
os.VfsLfs2.mkfs(bdev)
os.mount(bdev, '/ramdisk')
Once mounted, the filesystem (regardless of its type) can be used as it normally would be used from Python code, for example:
with open('/ramdisk/hello.txt', 'w') as f:
f.write('Hello world')
print(open('/ramdisk/hello.txt').read())
Filesystems¶
MicroPython ports can provide implementations of FAT
,
littlefs v1
and littlefs v2
.
The following table shows which filesystems are included in the firmware by default for given port/board combinations, however they can be optionally enabled in a custom firmware build.
Board |
FAT |
littlefs v1 |
littlefs v2 |
|---|---|---|---|
pyboard 1.0, 1.1, D |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Other STM32 |
Yes |
No |
No |
ESP8266 |
Yes |
No |
No |
ESP32 |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
FAT¶
The main advantage of the FAT filesystem is that it can be accessed over USB MSC on supported boards (e.g. STM32) without any additional drivers required on the host PC.
However, FAT is not tolerant to power failure during writes and this can lead to filesystem corruption. For applications that do not require USB MSC, it is recommended to use littlefs instead.
To format the entire flash using FAT:
# ESP8266 and ESP32
import os
os.umount('/')
os.VfsFat.mkfs(bdev)
os.mount(bdev, '/')
# STM32
import os, pyb
os.umount('/flash')
os.VfsFat.mkfs(pyb.Flash(start=0))
os.mount(pyb.Flash(start=0), '/flash')
os.chdir('/flash')
Littlefs¶
Littlefs is a filesystem designed for flash-based devices, and is much more resistant to filesystem corruption.
Note
There are reports of littlefs v1 and v2 failing in certain situations, for details see littlefs issue 347 and littlefs issue 295.
Note: It can be still be accessed over USB MSC using the littlefs FUSE
driver. Note that you must use the -b=4096
option to override the block
size.
To format the entire flash using littlefs v2:
# ESP8266 and ESP32
import os
os.umount('/')
os.VfsLfs2.mkfs(bdev)
os.mount(bdev, '/')
# STM32
import os, pyb
os.umount('/flash')
os.VfsLfs2.mkfs(pyb.Flash(start=0))
os.mount(pyb.Flash(start=0), '/flash')
os.chdir('/flash')
Hybrid (STM32)¶
By using the start
and len
kwargs to pyb.Flash
, you can create
block devices spanning a subset of the flash device.
For example, to configure the first 256kiB as FAT (and available over USB MSC), and the remainder as littlefs:
import os, pyb
os.umount('/flash')
p1 = pyb.Flash(start=0, len=256*1024)
p2 = pyb.Flash(start=256*1024)
os.VfsFat.mkfs(p1)
os.VfsLfs2.mkfs(p2)
os.mount(p1, '/flash')
os.mount(p2, '/data')
os.chdir('/flash')
This might be useful to make your Python files, configuration and other rarely-modified content available over USB MSC, but allowing for frequently changing application data to reside on littlefs with better resilience to power failure, etc.
The partition at offset 0
will be mounted automatically (and the filesystem
type automatically detected), but you can add:
import os, pyb
p2 = pyb.Flash(start=256*1024)
os.mount(p2, '/data')
to boot.py
to mount the data partition.
Hybrid (ESP32)¶
On ESP32, if you build custom firmware, you can modify partitions.csv
to
define an arbitrary partition layout.
At boot, the partition named “vfs” will be mounted at /
by default, but any
additional partitions can be mounted in your boot.py
using:
import esp32, os
p = esp32.Partition.find(esp32.Partition.TYPE_DATA, label='foo')
os.mount(p, '/foo')


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Introduction to Spark Structured Streaming - Part 9 : Processing Time Window
Structured Streaming is a new streaming API, introduced in spark 2.0, rethinks stream processing in spark land. It models stream as an infinite table, rather than discrete collection of data. It’s a radical departure from models of other stream processing frameworks like storm, beam, flink etc. Structured Streaming is the first API to build stream processing on top of SQL engine.
Structured Streaming was in alpha in 2.0 and 2.1. But with release 2.2 it has hit stable status. In next few releases, it’s going to be de facto way of doing stream processing in spark. So it will be right time to make ourselves familiarise with this new API.
In this series of posts, I will be discussing about the different aspects of the structured streaming API. I will be discussing about new API’s, patterns and abstractions to solve common stream processing tasks.
This is the ninth post in the series. In this post, we discuss about processing time abstraction. You can read all the posts in the series here.
TL;DR You can access code on github.
Processing Time Abstraction
In last post we discussed about the different time abstractions. One of those abstractions were processing time. As name signifies, processing time is the time tracked by processing engine regarding when data was arrived for processing. This is same as time definition of older DStream API. In this abstraction of time, time passed is signified by the central clock maintained at the driver.
In this post, we will discuss how to define a window on processing time. This allows us to see how we can mimic the DStream window API functionality in structured streaming API.
Windowed WordCount using Processing Time
The below are the steps to implement windowed word count using processing time abstraction.
Reading Data From Socket
The below code is to read the data from socket.
Adding the Time Column
To define a window in structured streaming, we need to have a column in dataframe of the type Timestamp. As we are working with processing time, we will use current_timestamp() function of spark SQL to add processing time to our data.
In above code, we are adding a column named processingTime which captures the current time of the processing engine.
Extracting Words
The below code extracts the words from socket and creates words with timestamp.
Defining Window
Once we have words, we define a tumbling window which aggregates data for last 15 seconds.
In above code, we define window as part of groupby. We group the records that we received in last 15 seconds.
Window API takes below parameters
-
Time Column - Name of the time column. In our example it’s processingTime.
-
Window Time - How long is the window. In our example it’s 15 seconds .
-
Slide Time - An optional parameter to specify the sliding time. As we are implementing tumbling window, we have skipped it.
Once we do groupBy, we do the count and sort by window to observe the results.
Query
Once we have defined the window, we can setup the execution using query.
You access complete code on github.
Output
When we run the example, we will observe the below results
As you can observe from the above output, we have count for each fifteen second interval. This makes sure that our window function is working.
In upcoming posts, we will discuss about other time abstractions.


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SNAKE EYES (1998) A Film Review by Ted Prigge Copyright 1998 Ted Prigge
Director: Brian DePalma Writer: David Koepp (story by Brian DePalma and David Koepp) Starring: Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, Carla Gugino, Stan Shaw, Kevin Dunn, John Heard, Joel Fabiani, Chip Zien, David Higgins, Luis Guzmán
"Snake Eyes" is the most aggravating kind of movie: the kind that shows so much potential then becomes unbelievably disappointing. It's not just because this is a Brian DePalma film, and since he's a great director and one who's films are always greeted with at least some fanfare. And it's not even because this was a film starring Nicolas Cage and since he gives a brauvara performance, this film is hardly worth his talents. It's worse than that. It's aggravating for the sole reason that its story could be so much more, could be totally intelligent, and it opens up with absolutely no subtlety that it will be handled complexly and intensely...then at one point in the movie makes on wrong turn that leads it to the Hall of Fame of Half-Assedness. Or more deservedly, the Hall of Fame of the Eighth-Assedness.
In certain circles, "Snake Eyes" was being advertised as a kind of modern day version of Kurosawa's classic "Rashomon," where a crime is told from the four different (and I mean different) perspectives, and it looks as though it may actually be just like this with the opening, which, I might add, is superb. In one very very very long steadicam shot, we meet the protagonist, crooked Atlantic City detective, Rick Santoro (Cage), and follow him before a boxing match as he talks on his cell phone with his wife, interupts a pay-per-view event on TV, chases down a gambler, enters the arena all pumped up for the fight, sits down and talks with his bud, Kevin Dunne (Gary Sinise, who's character should not be confused with that of actor Kevin Dunn, who's also in this), and watches as it happens.
There's a big name in the crowd, and that's the Secretary of Defense, Charles Kirkland (Joel Fabiani), who's sitting behind Rick, and who gets shot a second after the Heavyweight Champion, Lincoln Tyler (Stan Shaw), is knocked out. This all happens in the opening shot, and it creates so many red herrings and possibilities of what happened that it opens this scene up for close examination and total deconstruction. What really happened, this film asks, and it sets this film up extremely well for when Rick begins to question people and get different perspectives on the scene...and discovers there's a very good possibility it was a conspiracy.
As we follow Rick trying to learn of more information, we also meet a woman who was talking to Kirkland before he was shot (Carla Gugino), and who flees the scene in a panic, and tries to hide from the cops in the arena and the adjacent casino/hotel since the cops have blocked off the doors so they can get witness' takes on what happened.
This is all going pretty fine and dandy, and it's extremely interesting to watch...then it takes one wrong step. We follow the wrong character, and we learn of the answer to the mystery too early on, and way before Rick can find it out. But that's not the worst part of it: it's that it's the one person you didn't think it would be because he was too obviously supposed to be the red herring, the one you didn't think did it because it would be stupid and cliched of that person to be behind it.
It only gets worse: the film turns into a chase film about half way through the film, and since we already know what happened, we can't rely on Rick's investigation to be all that interesting. It's as if the film ran out of the guts to be really complex and original about a third of the way in, and decided to just fall back on an easy way out, and that just happens to mean that it has to become less and less credible. Events become more and more proposterous, and by the end, the film has decided to rely on the worst offender in mysteries like this: the deux ex machina. That's where some outside intereference brings the film to a sudden conclusion and makes everything okay. This time, it's a hurricane, an out-of-control police car, and a big round ball that adorned the arena.
What went wrong? DePalma and the screenwriter, David Koepp, are extremely credible people in their respective fields, and have been known for bringing life and complexity to mysteries such as this. DePalma, who idolizes Hitchcock to death, has done many a film like this, such as his masterpiece, "Blow Out," where a movie soundman uses movie elements to uncover a conspiracy piece by piece. But granted, DePalma at least makes it intriguing to watch, what with his over-the-top shot set-ups, notably the beginning and a sequence where the camera pans over top of a bunch of rooms in the hotel, forgetting anything about boundaries. At least his direction makes up partly for it.
Then there's Koepp, who showed such great ability at making a character's flaws come to life like he did in DePalma's earlier "Carlito's Way," a film that dove right into the life and past of its character and examined him extremely well. He can write a flawed character, but his Rick Santoro seems to be just a half-assed effort. He's flawed, and we can see redemption if the story wasn't so formulaic. A scene towards the end where he has to make a fatal decision is cheapened by the fact that his answer has no emotional buildup. He may as well have said the opposite of what he says; it would have at least gone with what the character was like.
This is the most disappointing kind of film because it promises intelligence and complexity, because it promises disection of a flawed character and perhaps even redemption, then pulls the rug from under us just as we were about to be convinced it would be able to go all the way. As I was watching the first half hour, I couldn't wait to see how the mystery would be unearthed, how many different perspectives he'd be given, and perhaps he'd have to make a choice between who's he has to believe. Now there's a film. Unfortunately, the film has two major deux ex machinas: one in the disasterous ending; the other, about a half hour in when the film goes into autopilot and becomes a stale and recycled piece of crap we've seen all too much before, but never from someone like DePalma.
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Compiling the Demo Program
Compiling The Demo Program
To compile your own version of the FrameBrowserIcs program for study or modification, the following is required:
- The source code for the demo program which is included in this package.
- If you have not already done so, download and install the THtmlViewer, TFrameViewer,
and TFrameBrowser HTML Components. This package may be obtained from
github.com/BerndGabriel/HtmlViewer
.
- This demo ICS v7 and the SSL files may be downloaded from
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Debugging
Both ICS and TFrameBrowser use exception handling as part of normal coding practice
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"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds."
Romans 12:2
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OUR MISSION
Requirements
for Application
General use of English (written and spoken)
Willingness and openness to be taught
Commitment to school assignments and weekly lectures
Already have an ongoing personal relationship with God
Limited to 20 participants only - on first come, first serve basis
Age
20 - 35 years old
Duration
May 12th to July 14th 2021
Frequency
weekly
(wednesdays for 2 hours - via zoom)
Cost
free
Nationality
all nationalities
For more details, contact
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>FACILITATORS
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TESTIMONIES
Read about a new generation of Jeremiah’s and Nehemiah’s that God is raising through this school!
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