How would you adjust the Hero's Journey to fit the "kishotenketsu" structure?

Question: How would you adjust the western "hero's journey" story framework to make it fit the Japanese "kishotenketsu" story framework?
Comment: Welcome to Writing.SE! Your first question is off-topic here as we don't answer questions about existing works of fiction (while the question body uses a different phrasing, "Are there manga that don't use kishoutenketsu?" is a trivial "yes" - see [the entire slice-of-life genre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slice_of_life#Anime_and_manga), for example). I'm going to edit this to focus on the second question, which *is* on-topic here.
Comment: Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it's hard to tell exactly what you're asking.
Answer: To be strict, it's difficult to answer this question. Both the hero's journey and kishotenketsu are different frameworks, each with a set number of stages to follow.
I think the spirit of your question is perhaps better expressed as How would you take a story that is typical for the Hero's journey narrative, and re-tell that story in the kishotenketsu form?
I'm not intimately familiar with kishōtenketsu, but I think I understand it well enough to give it a shot.
Let's start with a well-fitting example: the story of Bilbo in the The Hobbit. Without going through all 17 stages of the Hero's Journey, the main ingredients are there: call to action, crossing the threshold, facing the big evil, returning home, etc.
For Kishōtenketsu, we need to tell this story in four stages. Introduction, development, twist and resolution. The twist (Ten) is the key to the story, so it's probably easiest to work backward from there.
I think it's important to note that the twist we're looking for is not necessarily a Shyamalan/Twilight Zone "reveal". It can be a change of setting or perspective, or even a reference to a different story. The key is that it's surprising, and we look at the original setting with different eyes.
Here's one approach:

Ki: We begin with the journey already in progress. Bilbo feels out of his depth. He looks up to the dwarves, and doesn't know what he's supposed to contribute. Gandalf is there to put his mind at ease.
Shō: The journey gets more difficult and the surroundings more menacing. Bilbo keeps screwing things up for the company. Bilbo's feelings of inadequacy increase and Thorin gets increasingly frustrated with him. Then Gandalf, his emotional support, abandons him. They get to the mountain, the one place where Bilbo is supposed to have something to do, and he can't do it.
Ten: Thorin's backstory is revealed. It becomes clear to Bilbo that he does not feel himself a capable leader. Compared to his ancestors, who were true leaders, he feels as much as an impostor as Bilbo does.
Ketsu: Bilbo now understands that the people he looks up to feels the same way he does, and Thorin understands that the pressure he puts on Bilbo is causing him to screw up. Moreover, he understands that he feels the same pressure from his ancestors, causing him to fail. Without that pressure, they can work together to figure out the way into the mountain.

You can either end the story with them going into the mountain, and leave the confrontation with Smaug unresolved, or you can show them expertly stealing all the gold, with little conflict with Smaug. The key is that the confrontation with Smaug is not the climax of the story, so the focus should be different. If it's shown at all, it should be as a logical consequence of the perspective gained in the Ten step.
This is not the only way to do it. You could take the whole journey and compress it into the Ten step. That would give you an automatic contrast between settings for your twist. The Ki and Shō steps would take place in the Shire, building up Bilbo's agonizing over whether to join or not, and the Ketsu step would be the return, showing Bilbo different perspective on his old life.
This approach is more generally applicable to any Hero's Journey narrative, but note how much it shifts the focus. The whole journey is compressed to a single step. Perhaps we can think of the Hero's Journey as a Kishotenketsu story with a very long and elaborate Ten stage. If you write your story that way, you might be able to integrate the two methods. If so you'd just have to keep the following in mind:

Don't put the focus on the showdown with the Big Villain. Focus on the contrast between the pre-journey setting and the setting of the journey. Emphasize the fish-out-of-water aspects of the story.

Feel free to eliminate the Big Villain altogether, or subvert the trope by showing that they're not so bad after all.

Spend more time before the threshold, and use that time to set a key situation which may be reinterpreted during the journey.
The journey is not there to get to the final confrontation and shape the hero step by step. It the setting of the journey itself, and its contrast with the original setting that leads to insight.
Put the main resolution in the return, not during the journey. In the monomyth, the return is a kind secondary of payoff for conquering the main conflict. Here, it's the main payoff of the story.
Answer: Similar to Profane tmesis, I am not familiar with the kishotenketsu beyond a a quick look up on Wikipedia, but it seems like kishotenketsu is a four part story structure (like a 3 act play) while the heroes journey is a monomyth or archetypical story that has key story beats shared among stories (Joseph Campbell, who is probably most associated with outlining the concept, list 17 beats but more modern scholars have reduced this to 8-12 beats).  Almost all scholars typically ascribe an order these beats occur, grouped in the Western 3-Act  story structure, which follows the idea of Beginning, Middle, End phases in a story or the Rising Action, Climax, and Falling Action (in the hero's journey monomyth, these three acts are Departure, Initiation, Return).
It's important to know that while the Story Structure of the Hero's Journey follows the 3 act format, there is nothing saying it cannot be a kishotenketsu because the Hero's Journey isn't a "story structure". Like kishotenketsu or 3 act structure, story structure is the chronological arrangement of events in a story for the purposes of building up the story.   Hero's Journey is a memetic story or monomyth story archetype.  This can be seen in the title of Campbell's work, which is considered the definitive exploration of The Hero's Journey, The Hero of 1,000 Faces.  In 1000 Faces, Campbell is demonstrating that the Hero's Journey story is so deeply ingrained in humans, that stories with similar elements can be found in cultures separated by both history and geography the world over.  For example, one work expanding on Campbell's gives the key story beats names that are evocative of the story of Jesus Christ.  And while 1000 Faces was a huge influence on George Lucas and the writing of Star Wars, it didn't enter modern mainstream until Campbell talked discussed the Hero's Journey with relation to Star Wars in the 1988 PBS documentary series "The Making of Myth" (which for understanding Campbell's ideas, is probably the best work to look into as much of the discussion has Campbell outlining where in Star Wars certain story beats occur and then relates to other myth stories to show that the beat need not literally happen, in a different myth, but how that myth contains the same metaphoric example.).  For one example I recall, Campbell identifies several different points in the original Trilogy which can qualify as "The Land of Trials", the prison break of Leia in "Hope", Luke's Training at Dagobah, and Freeing Han Solo from Jabba as examples that meet the role, but also how all three are different despite existing in the same works as the goals are changed.  Additionally, all three feature "Dragons that must be slain" is metaphorical and done differently (In Empire, the dragon is the most metaphorical, with the cave segment which reveals that Luke's struggle is internal.  If he's not careful, he too will fall to the Dark Side.  In Hope, Campbell sees the Dragon as the Death Star's storm troopers and Vader, who try to prevent their escape.  In Jedi, Campbell Identifies the Dragon as Jabba the Hutt, but points out while he's the most obvious (his den is dark, he's a greedy SOB, and he even takes a princess as his prisoner), it's well played because the heroes handle the Dragon in a different manner (Luke, the sword wielding hero, never gets close to Jabba... and the Princess who slays the Dragon for herself.  Luke's contribution was more of a chess master in making sure all his pieces were on the board).).
It's also noted that the story structure need not follow closely to the structures outlined and may not be feasible for the medium the story is written for.  For example, most hour long television programing in the U.S. is structured to follow a 5 act structure to follow with the way traditional network TV's will arrange commercial breaks.  Typically, this will be "Teaser" which begins at Status Quo state and sets up some elements that will be the start of the rising action, followed by the Title Credits sequence.   Then there will be a 3 act structure with acts 1 and 2 escalating the conflict of the story, while act 3 will end as soon as the climax is reached, the final act is the coda and typically is short enough to wrap up and return to some status quo.
Typically, since the story structure dictates the story's progress from beginning to end, the Hero's Journey can easily be fitted to a kishotenketsu as the kishotenketsu can combine two elements to make it into a three act structure (either the Ki and Sho phases or the Sho and Ten phases, depending on how important the twist is to the conflict.  The ketsu phase should always parallel the falling action as you are returning to a normalcy in your story.   To think about the basic story elements, Ki would be "Here is the world of my story on any given day", Sho would be "Here is the situation that builds conflict", Ten would be "Here is the final piece of the puzzle that enables the Climax" and Ketsu is "here is the state of the world once the conflict has been resolved"
One film that I think works this well AND conforms to a Hero's Journey is "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse", especially because the film is building to a very obvious point, but it's not the fight between the hero (Miles) and the villain (Kingpin).  Instead, the film makers admit the first scene they ever made and the one which every event prior to and every point after is enabled by, is the "What's up Danger" sequence (Specifically Mile's Leap of Faith fall, which is shot inverted so that the audience actually sees Miles "Ascending" to New York.  If we assume this is "The Twist", then it's easy to break the previous events into Ki and Show (the death of Peter Parker and Miles meeting Middle-Age Peter from another universe as the separation of the two and Ketsu would be the final Fight with Kingpin as well as the conclusion of the film and the happy ending.)  At the same time, this can easily track with Miles' role in The Hero's Journey (If you've seen the film and I ask you to think of the scene where Miles refuses the call to adventure and you do not chuckle, I'll know you're lying to me.).


LMS Code for making international transfer

Question: I have been asked to make advance payment of 85 usd for LMS code inorder to make international wire transfer. Why are they not deducting. Could this be a scam attempt by the bank.
The bank is unifiedfalcon.xyz. Anyone please can you help me vaidate where this is a scam or is legit?
Comment: Does this answer your question? [I was asked for a COT code to transfer money to my account. Is this a scam?](https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/100166/i-was-asked-for-a-cot-code-to-transfer-money-to-my-account-is-this-a-scam)
Comment: Does this answer your question? [Is a tcp code fee a legit fee what is a tcp code](https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/159261/is-a-tcp-code-fee-a-legit-fee-what-is-a-tcp-code)
Answer: This is clearly a scam. Please be aware that anyone can set up a web site claiming to be a bank. This web site is clearly bogus:

Googling "United Falcon" reveals several non-banking businesses in the middle east, but no sign of a bank by that name in the UK.

Several of the links on the home page are dead or simply link back to the home page. In particular, the link to "Terms of Use" at the bottom of the home page just links back to the home page. Any real business would make sure that link was working.

The "Contact" link at the bottom of the home page shows an address of "10030 brick lane, United kingdom". This isn't how an actual address would be written in the UK. There would at least be a city and a postal code. Also note that there are no phone numbers listed.

No list of corporate officers is provided.

No links are provided to relevant UK government banking authorities or regulations.

It's using the .xyz domain. Legitimate banks in the UK would almost certainly be using the .co.uk domain. The .xyz domain is notorious for hosting scams.

It's not a real bank and is trying to scam  you.


How detect playing video by ioctl?

Question: Is it possible to detect video playing by ioctl in linux. Maybe detect decoding of the video file. How about this is working with flash player and html5 video?
Can you provide some information how start with this.
Answer: There's no way to distinguish a video image from a normal graphic, so no, there's no general way of detecting if a video is playing or not, if the video rendering is done in software.
The purpose of ioctls is to communicate with kernel drivers. That has nothing to do with your question.

How detect playing video by ioctl?


Counter beside review button in top bar

Question: Wouldn't it be easier to have a number (maybe in brackets) beside the review button at the top to show you how many items you can currently review? At the moment you have to click the review button to see if there are any items waiting, and there might not be. While it is not a big deal, I don't see why it would hurt to add this. Any ideas?
Comment: You might want to take a look at [this thing I made](http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/11540?m=15143936#15143936) because of the same reasons. It saves a click (back to last page or clicking into review queue), and it saves a page load.
Comment: This would add several more db pulls per page load. There is already a box for suggest edits, once you have the privilege to approve them.
Answer: status-completed
There was a counter added to the top bar which was there for many years, however, this has since been replaced by a simple red dot when there are many items to review:
Answer: There is one already (actually it should be 2, one of them was removed due reasons, but it's being planned to be added back, or so I hope). There is also a feature request over MSE that may be interesting to you. But essentially, they are trying to bring those functions while not affecting the performance as Frank suggest.

Counter beside review button in top bar


Data Matching Using Machine Learning

Question: I have around 4000 customer records and 6000 user records and about 3000 customer records match leaving 1000 unmatched customers. I have created a fuzzy matching algorithm using Levenshtein and Hamming and added weights to certain properties, but I want to be able to match the remaining records without manually doing this. Ideally I want to implement an algorithm to take a customer and user and output match/no match. However, wouldn't I need to train with true negatives? Is there an algorithm that can train with just 1 label?
Thanks
Comment: Hello, rodrigo! Read about [record linkage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_linkage) and [one-class classification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-class_classification). I think your approach is sound for a first pass.
Answer: You can obtain one negative example by taking one of the 3000 customer records and pairing it with any user record that is known not to match.  In this way, you can obtain $3000$ positives and $3000 \times 5999$ negatives.  You could then train a boolean classifier on this entire training set.  This might work better than using one-class classification on just the positives.
Even better might be to use techniques for learning to rank.  If $c$ is a customer record that is known to match a user record $u$, and $u'$ is any other user record (which $c$ doesn't match), then you want your classifier to rank the pair $(c,u)$ higher than $(c,u')$.  In this way you can obtain $3000 \times 5999$ such ranking-pairs, and try to train a classifier to learn to rank, then use that to find the best match for each of the 1000 customer records.
Comment: Wouldn't the first method just train the classifier to reject every pair that has customer **c** as a customer? @D.W.
Comment: @RodrigoEstrella, no, why would it do that?  If you generate all possible negatives, you'll have 3999 negatives per customer.  I've edited my answer to try to make it clearer what I am suggesting.
Comment: I ended up using your first method to offset my customers by 1000 and creating 3000 true negatives. Thanks!
Comment: @RodrigoEstrella, FYI, using only 3000 negatives instead of all 3000*5999 negatives might make this perform significantly worse.  If you want to get by with fewer negatives, my suggestion would be to obtain negatives by choosing the best non-match: i.e., for each customer record $c$ with a known match to a user record $u$, look at all the non-matching user records and find the one $u'$ that is closest to matching $c$ (but still doesn't match it); then add $(c,u)$ as a positive and $(c,u')$ as a negative.

Data Matching Using Machine Learning


2017 Dodge Journey

Question: I recently bought a 2017 Dodge Journey SE 4 cyl that has a small 5"  radio in it, at first I was a proud owner of a lcd screen going from a 2002 Ford explorer to a 2017, but now I'm wondering if I can upgrade the Journey to an 8" touch screen that's in the 6cyl engines with heated seats, would it be a universal stock part ?
Answer: If the opening in the dash is sufficiently large, then it will be a straight swap, assuming that the wiring is "standard". Most ICE have adaptor harnesses available to match the ICE to a vehicle.
If the opening is not large enough then different parts will be needed, sourcing the may be easy or challenging.

2017 Dodge Journey


netbeans 7.1.2, scala 2.9.1-1,nbscala-7.1v2.9.x-0.1.zip

Question: Could you help me with this problem. I try to run scala file with simple code like "Hello,world", but there is error like this
C:\Users\Ersain\Documents\NetBeansProjects\ScalaApplication4\nbproject\build-impl.xml:403: **The following error occurred while executing this line**:
C:\Users\Ersain\Documents\NetBeansProjects\ScalaApplication4\nbproject\build-impl.xml:236: Problem: **failed to create task or type scalac
Cause: The name is undefined.**

I created user variable with this parameter: SCALA_HOME, value- C:\scala-2.9.1-1\bin;
system variable has  parameter like user variable
when I go to TOOLS->SCALA PLATFORMS it shows me this message
"Error: The specified folder does not contain a Scala platform.
If you want to specify a different folder for this platform, remove this platform and create a new one with exactly the same name pointing to the correct platform folder."

Answer: Try setting SCALA_HOME to C:\scala-2.9.1-1, not the bin dir.


SMS notification on Bluetooth

Question: How can I get text notifications on my 390 Plantronics bluetooth device from my Galaxy Prevail 2 if it has that feature?
I have tried my settings in my phone but it only has the option for call audio.
What else can I do?
Comment: What kind of text notifications are you talking about? Message alert tone?
Answer: If you're talking about Audio here (e.g. having notifications, alarms, etc. sent to your (Bluetooth) headset), you might wish to take a look at SoundAbout:

SoundAbout settings screens (source: Google Play; click images for larger variants)
This app allows you to define which audio signal is routed where (even on certain conditions). I'm not sure how far the free version goes concerning Bluetooth, as the app description says Bluetooth behavior - (Pro version). To my understanding, those "behavior settings" only include specifics like "force to mono", but I don't use the app myself, and thus cannot tell for sure.

SMS notification on Bluetooth


Is there a football based game and training for two players?

Question: How can two players play a football based game, so that they can develop the necessary skills to play the actual game (when played with team) and at the same time enjoy the game?
Comment: Please, expand your material conditions (pitch size and surface type, goal size) and do you have equipment (cones, balls...)?
Comment: We have a field out here. We also have cones and a ball.
Answer: Football is a team sport. There are several aspects to the game like passing,  positioning, zonal marking, man marking, etc. which are lost when a person plays alone against an opponent. The skills that would be refined would be dribbling, shooting and tackling.
Instead, you can use your time with your friend to do drills. Drills that two players can comfortably assist each other with such as short passing, long passing, etc. Check out this guide for a good set of drills, which can be adapted to suit you and your friend.
If drills feel more like a chore than a fun activity, you can find ways to gamify it. Give points for repeatedly hitting a defined target, the number of sucessful dribbles without getting tackled, the number of successful tackles, etc. This way you would be motivated to compete with your friend while still improving your skills and having fun.


Is friction required for knots (not hitches or bends) to hold fast to a rope?

Question: Using rope with idealized coefficient of surface friction approaching zero, that is in all other ways typical (typically stretchable, compressible, flexible and twistable), is it possible to tighten a true knot, defined here as a "prime knot" according to knot theory, (which excludes hitches such as the clove hitch covered in Baymans Theory of Hitches (1977) and excludes bends such as the square knot and sheepshank addressed by Maddocks and Keller (1987)) to a point that non frictional forces,  such as forces from pulling or twisting, will suffice to allow the knot to hold as a stopper knot? To simplify, are the tightening forces (and / or torsional forces ) that occur when we try to pull a trefoil (aka "overhand knot")  through an opening too small for it to fit through, enough to keep a it from unwinding?
Comment: Maybe I am missing something here, but isn't a knot always held tight, as long as the rope is taut? Regardless of friction? How could a knot ever unwind if the ends of the rope are fixed? And in the case of prime knots where there *are no ends*, it requires the rope to break somewhere for the knot to unravel, if I'm not mistaken. Regardless of friction.
Comment: There's one way to find out.  Grease a rope, tie several knots in it, pull on it, and see if the knots come undone.
Comment: Yes but the question is when only ONE end of the rope is being pulled.  So only part of the rope is taut...  the part between the knot and the end being pulled.  Take a piece of string tie a knot in it. Hold the string between your thumb and finger and pull until the knot is stopped by your fingers.  At that point (assuming your fingers are strong enough to hold the knot in place) either the string will unwind or it will break as you pull harder and harder.  so if there is no friction in the string can the knot hold, or is there something other than friction that creates the knot.
Comment: David, so funny you should say that. Just about 10 seconds ago I thought "What a stupid question I have asked... based on my spending hours sifting through literature, and seeing how little study has been done regarding forces on knots, I would bet nobody knows the answer, so I guess I will have to experiment to find out.  I am still holding out for someones keen insight but I will start experimenting while I wait.
Comment: If I had to bet I would bet that modulus of elasticity can make a knot hold in a rope with a surface Cof near zero.
Answer: Imagine a frictionless rope in a tube.
Now make an overhand knot out of tube with the rope inside.
Pull the rope, holding the tube. It is frictionless, OK ?
Now remove the tube. The rope-only knot differs in a sense that the rope contact with itself (just like with the tube) or has free surface (that has even more freedom).
Comment: Good way to visualize it, but I think it doesn't address the question.  In the example you give the rope is un able to "squeeze" itself.  Hence there is really no knot in your example as I see it.  When I "tighten" a knot I am using one part of the rope to apply a constricting pressure on another part of the rope (constriction is not allowed in your example).  Friction-less doesn't bring with it un-compressible.  If I can compress a friction-less rope enough, will that halt the motion?  Maybe that is a better way to frame the question.
Comment: @AAnderson You ask:"If I can compress a friction-less rope enough, will that halt the motion?" That depends. If the rope has internal friction then a force is required to shift the position of the contriction along the length of the rope. If there is no internal friction then the rope is like a tube filled with a friction-less fluid. Then any constriction of the rope is free to shift along the length of the rope.
Comment: Cleonis, Great nuance. I meant to say any avg rope (it can 1. stretch, 2. be compressed, 3.be twisted, and 4. has a stiffness) except it has a CoF approaching zero. And each of the other 4 properties may be contributing to a knots ability to resist slipping apart.  IOW, what ultimately holds a knot in place?. If it is all friction then then the material becomes more important that the knot, A typically "reliable" knot in a slippery rope is worse than an a typically "unreliable" knot in a rope with a high CoF. This could have a big impact in real world engineering.
Comment: @AAnderson If the rope has stiffness - that is, it resists bending to some extend - then that stiffness alone will untie the knot already. The rope will try to straighten out, pulling the free end back through the knot.
Answer: Yes, friction is required to hold a knot fast. This is why stronger knots have more turns. Each turn is adding frictional forces to keep the knots shape.
Answer: No. To be frictionless would mean that there is no electromagnetic interaction, so what force is left to hold it together? Perhaps a gravitational rope...or one that depends on the strong or weak force...
Comment: @AAnderson your example is what I thought at first, but I thought that would essentially the same interaction as friction, except on a macroscopic scale. The dimples in your example play the same role that very small irregularities would have for a rope *with* friction.
Comment: So are you saying that without friction knots are impossible.  That would mean (I think) that you are saying you cant ever squeeze a frictionless object tight enough to hold it? (like trying to grab a pumpkin seed - it always squirts out)   But what if you could squeeze the pumpkin seed enough to create little dimples.  At that point, even if friction-less, you could squeeze and hold the seed cuz the sliding forces would be in offsetting directions.  So, if as the knot tightens it crates a sort of hourglass in the rope, could it hold, even without friction?


Single-phase diesel generator to three-phase modification

Question: I have a 220 V, single-phase diesel generator and I would like to know if it's possible to modify it to generate 400 V, three-phase. I have never tried this before.
Answer: Yes, but it will cost more than getting a 3-phase generator. You'll need a single phase motor coupled shaft-t-shaft to a 3-phase generator. Power the motor with the gen set and power your load with the 3-phase generator.
Answer: You would need to rewind the generator stator for three phase. Not impossible, but a daunting proposition. If you just want to have a source of three phase power, you could use a VFD. But a 220 VAC single phase input VFD will only give you 220 VAC three phase. So you would also need a step-up transformer. Probably best to use a 220-440 VAC single phase transformer (or autotransformer), and a 440-480 VAC VFD.


flexible space vs fixed space bar button item

Question: flexible space vs fixed space bar button items, what's the difference ? I couldn't find any definition on the internet.
Answer: The flexible space adjusts its size as the window is resized.
Comment: thank you for the answer ( i don't know why the question is rated down)


Siliconization for Organic Compounds

Question: I was wondering if it was possible to create Silane from Methane using the process of siliconization to replace the Carbon with Silicon. For example Silicon Carbide is produced by replacing C-C bonds with a Si-C bond.
Comment: What do you mean by siliconization and what is replacing bonds? In drawing, or in actual chemical reaction?
Answer: A key difference between carbon and silicon (and why you usually can't make an all-silicon version of an organic compound where all its carbons are replaced with silicon) is that long chains of silicon atoms are not stable. Another key difference is that a hydrogen attached directly to silicon, as in silane, is typically more reactive--say toward hydrolysis or oxidation--that one attached to a carbon atom. I do not know of any process to directly "silanize" a carbon compound, as stated in your question.

Siliconization for Organic Compounds


Is there a factor that modify your chance of stealing something?

Question: When you have the thief in your party you can steal items from some pnj. You have a given pourcentage of chance to successfully steal each available item. I've noticed that for the healing grape at the moment I have a 80% success rate for the regular one and 8% for the upgraded one (in french it has a (M) next to it, for Medium I guess). I didn't see a difference when standing behind or in front of a pnj. So is there any factor that change your chance of stealing an item ?
Comment: Would like to know why someone downvoted this. It's not a bad question, they've shown some attempt to figure it out themselves and it's not blatantly against the rules
Answer: Your success rate increases as your thief's (Therion's) level increases.
There are also, in some towns, people that, if you scrutinize (with Cyrus) or inquire (with Alfyn) will give you an increased success rate. More specifically, when you do either of those actions you'll see "Thieving Tips & Tricks" in the "Information Gleaned" section of the dialog box.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/204212-octopath-traveler/76889313 lists all the towns that have an NPC that'll boost your steal success rate:

Bolderfall - Townsperson (Near Entrance)
Noblecourt - Townsperson (Near Book-loving Girl)
Grandport - Elderly Woman (Inside the House with Blocked Entrance)
Marsalim - Townsperson (Near Entrance)
Northreach - Townsperson (Inside House, Higher Star rating)
Riverford - Right Guard (Inside Tavern)

You can also kinda cheat by constantly restarting the game. In the Octopath community doing that is called "save scumming".
Comment: yeah, that was a misread, I was thinking you were making a comparison to the other Rouge actions with a chance of succeed/fail. I didn't make the link between them being the info-gathering actions. Pre-coffee brain is my excuse for not getting that
Comment: Alfyn is a hero path, so will never fail. What you probably mean is increase the probability of being attracted by primrose
Comment: @ForceGaia - no. "Thieving Tips & Tricks" is information that you need to glean. You can glean information with either Scrutinize or Inquire. Scrutinize can hurt your reputation in town whereas Inquire won't. The flip side is that you can glean information from higher level NPC's with Scrutinize, albeit with the risk that success is not guaranteed and failure will hurt your rep. Basically, you need to trigger the dialog box depicted in https://i.stack.imgur.com/v79J1.jpg
Comment: @ForceGaia - how would being attracted by primrose do anything to increase your stealing success rate anyway?


How do I go from an Adobe XD prototype to a working app?

Question: I Have Created A Beautiful Design Of My App Using Adobe XD. But Now I Want To Convert That Design Into App That Looks Exact The Same. How do I go from an Adobe XD prototype to a working app?
Answer: Your question sounds a bit like your searching for a way to convert your design into an app without dealing with the code a lot (in a kind of WYSIWYG-fashion similar to what Adobe Muse does for websites). My answer assumes that that's what you're asking. If not, please feel free to ignore my answer...
Adobe XD is only a design app. This means, that it doesn't really have code generation features. Having said that, there are now a few plugins that can support you in writing this code (e.g. Lightning Storm CC – to my knowledge – supports Android UI export).
Also, as Ash Ryan Arnwine mentioned before, design specs support you when developing the UI (you'll need to code it yourself, though).
All in all, there is no way around either knowing how to code or hiring a developer when creating an Android app. Therefore, these tools can only support you in development, not replace the technical aspect of developing an app. The answer to your question, therefore, is that there, unfortunately (or fortunately – depending on how you look at it?) isn't any way to quickly "convert" a prototype (which really is nothing more than a prototype) into a real app other than coding it yourself (possibly with the assistance of the tools mentioned by Ash Ryan Arnwine and me).
Answer: Since there are many unique workflows out there for designers and developers, there's no single answer to your question.
Here are a few things worth looking into:

Adobe XD design specs: View design specs published from Adobe XD, which enable you to inspect and comment on the flows, measurements, and styles.
Adobe XD for Jira Cloud: Associate XD prototypes and design specs with Jira issues to keep projects organized and provide developers with everything they need to know right within Jira.
Adobe XD plugins: Plugins are coming soon to XD. A couple of common use cases for plugins is designer-developer and design-to-code workflows. If the plugin you want to see isn't when plugins launch, the APIs will be open for anyone to build it.
Answer: The answer depends on your response to this question: Are you ready to spend money to make this happen? if so, there are two Adobe plugins that try to convert your prototype(anyway, you'll need to code and make efforts in Android Studio). Those plugins are:

Lightning Storm
Yotako


Backup and restore Solaris 11(whole Os)

Question: Is there any free third party software that can do backup and restore of the Solaris 11 OS? I tried Acronis 2017 for few times but failed. I will hang & stop at the half way of the backup process which analyzing the partition.
Comment: What are you storing your backup on?  Backing up Solaris 11 can be really easy using ZFS snapshots and `zfs send ...`.
Comment: What are you using for yor OS? Zpool, vxfs, ufs?
Comment: HI Andrew, I will store it to a linux virtual machine. Yeah, I think ZFS snapshots work  so easily thank!
Comment: Ludiegu, zpool, zfs
Answer: One of the easiest ways on Solaris 11 is to use unified archives (UARs).  They're similar to flars from prior revs of the OS.  Here's a quick run down of a simple use case.  You'll want to read up on UARs to see how they'd meet your needs.
To create a root only recovery UAR -- giving you a root only backup of the global:
archiveadm create -r -z global --root-only /tmp/global-rootonly-recovery.uar
To view a UARs info:
archiveadm info -v /tmp/globalrecovery.uar
When needed to recover or clone a system, to create recovery media for use on a DVD (use -f iso ) or USB stick:
archiveadm create-media /tmp/globalrecovery.uar
To then copy UAR to a USB stick:
usbcopy /tmp/globalrecovery.uar
Here are two reference links you may also find useful:
Working with UARs On Solaris 11
How to Perform System Archival and Recovery Procedures with Oracle Solaris 11

Backup and restore Solaris 11(whole Os)


nginx configuration for blocking bots

Question: I took over a magento site running on nginx. I looked and saw that currently there are ~100 "online" guests, all of them are bingbot. There are a lot of suggestions for how to properly block bots, referers, and user-agents (such as this one), but none of them really explain their code and how it does what they say it does. I am wondering if anyone could suggest code for bot/user-agent/referer blocking in nginx, and explain why that code works.
Answer: The guest count comes from sessions. Bots do not send cookies, so each request will be a be session. The Redis Session module has code to combat this issue and I highly recommend switching to Redis session storage backend.
The second issue is that most likely the bots are crawling your layered navigation. You need to determine what the layered navigation URL components are and disallow them in your robots.txt. Disallow follows standard glob syntax.
Layered navigation are the filters on category pages that slice the product collection of that category based on things like sub category, price, color etc. Since each site has different filters setup and some have extension that alter the generated URLs, this has to be customized.

nginx configuration for blocking bots


inertia tensor of rigid body in generalized coordinate frame?

Question: Assuming we know the inertial tensor of a homogeneous rigid body about a coodinate frame at its COM and aligned to it principal axes, how do we find the inertial tensor for the body in some other general coordinate frame which has a linear transformation (4x4) (which accounts for both rotation and translation) T from the principal C.F at the COM ?
Answer: The general 4×4 transformation matrix has a structure where the top left 3×3 submatrix is the rotation + scaling factors. If there is no scaling, then extract the this matrix $ \mathrm{R}$ from $$\text{transform}= \left| \matrix{ \mathrm{R} & \vec{t} \\ \vec{0}^\intercal & 1 } \right| $$
Then you do the standard
$$ \mathrm{I}_{\rm world} = \mathrm{R}\,\mathrm{I}_{\rm body} \mathrm{R}^\intercal $$
This assumes the transformation is defined as local -> world sense.
Now if you want to include the parallel axis theorem to move the MMMOI definition to a new point them you use the following rule
$$ \mathrm{I}_{\rm world} = \mathrm{R}\,\mathrm{I}_{\rm body} \mathrm{R}^\intercal - m [\vec{t}\times] [\vec{t}\times]$$

 where $[\vec{t}\times]$ is the 3×3 skew-symmetric cross product operator:

$$\pmatrix{x\\y\\z} \times = \left[ \matrix{0 & -z & y\\ z & 0 & -x \\ -y & x & 0} \right] $$

 such that $\vec{a} \times \vec{b}$ becomes the vector/matrix product $[\vec{a} \times] \vec{b}$.
Comment: Thank you for the answer . I have a follow up question !

The now resulting inertia tensor matrix in the general C.F which is not at the COM necessarily, is also a symmetric matrix. Therefore, as with all symmetric real 3x3 matrices, this will also have real orthogonal eigen vectors. What is their significance ? I know had this general C.F positioned at the COM, the eigen vector basis would be the principal frame for the  inertia matrix. And in that case you can set the rigid body in perpetual rotation (assume no external Moment) about an axes through the COM along any of the eigen vectors.
Comment: The eigenvectors should give the direction of principal inertia about the new pivot point. Think of a mass attached at the end of a massless rod that is fixed on the other end. The inertia matrix is $$\mathrm{I} = -m [\vec{r}\times] [\vec{r}\times] = m \pmatrix{y^2+z^2 & -x y & -x z \\ -x y & x^2+z^2 & -y z \\ -x z & -y z & x^2+z^2} $$ where $\vec{r}=\pmatrix{x&y&z}$ is the location of the mass (on the end of the rod).  The eigenvectors are along the rod, and perpendicular to the rod.


Connecting Wiimote to Dolphin Emulator

Question: I having tremendous amount of trouble connecting my Wiimote with the dolphin emulator on Mac. I am using the latest version of dolphin. I have both the Wiimote and the Wiimote plus. The Mac bluetooth easily detects both Wiimotes and connects with no issues. While Dolphin detects the Wiimote to some extent (it shows up in the controllers dropdown in settings), it does not connect. The lights on the Wiimote stay flashing, it never actually connects completely. Any ideas why this is? Is anyone else having such issues?
I appreciate any suggestions.
Answer: have you changed the settings in dolphin to "real controller"?
Comment: Brief comments like this are better as a "comment" as you provide no other information. EG avoid short one-line answers.

Connecting Wiimote to Dolphin Emulator


Distortion of interference pattern at LIGO

Question: Does the vibration due to the earthquakes distort the interference pattern of LIGO's interferometer?
Comment: Yes of course. The whole system must take seismological signals as input so that these can be removed from signals common to both interferometers. Although all possible measures are made to mitigate noise,  for an instrument this sensitive total suppression is quite impossible. If a signal is common to both interferometers at the same time, then one knows that it cannot have come from local contamination at either end, so it's a possible candidate. However, it might have come from within the Earth or from a point on the Earth midway between them; seismometers are used to cull ....
Comment: .... these disturbances from the data. Any high correlations left must come from outside the planet. Within these, LIGO looks for those that have the theoretical gravitation wave signatures, *e.g.* of infalling black  hole pairs, but many different templates are used.
Answer: Yes and no.
The measurement systems are isolated from ground vibrations by a complex system of supports, but earthquakes will still affect them. There are passive systems which try and isolate the mirrors and active ones which sense local ground movements and cancel them out.
The main defense is the second LIGO in another state which won't feel the same earthquake at the same time.
A signal is only likely to be astronomical if it is detected by both of them at (almost) the same time.
Comment: I know that the support system actively measures local ground movements and cancels it out as far as possible, obviously some noise will remain and it is the coincidence  of the two sites that is the ultimate safety
Comment: Interesting. I was under the impression that seismological data were used to rule out disturbances from within the Earth; although I may simply be recalling a draught specification document / feasibility study for the Einstein Telescope here. Do you know for sure whether, once common signals are found, only their resemblance to theoretical templates is used to assess candidates?
Comment: In other words, strong seismic movements are being cleaned from the data set, like one would expect in such an experiment. I think that's much more of a "yes", than a "no".
Comment: Yes it would distort them if it wasn't actively damped. No it doesn't affect the result because of the coincidence detection


Where can I find food-grade beeswax to make Canelé?

Question: I am looking for food-grade beeswax to make Canelé.  On Amazon, all I can seem to find is "cosmetic grade" which is not necessarily meant for food usage.
Comment: Does it have to be beeswax specifically? I know it has a higher melting point than some waxes but it's surely going to melt either way.
Comment: It doesn't actually all melt away, beeswax are used to coat the tins you cook canele in and there is a thin layer of beeswax left on the cakes as you eat them.  It has to be an edible wax and beeswax is traditional.
Comment: I didn't say it melted away, just that it would fully melt (before ultimately resolidifying). Beeswax melts around 145F (63C), and given that we're talking about baked goods I assume it's going to be way over that temperature, and the exact melting point of the wax would seem to not be critical. So any other food-grade wax would be a potential substitute even if not as traditional.
Answer: @Adisak I was able to find one  source , although there may be many more.
I also found food grade paraffin wax, but it seems that it has a much lower melting point.
After a little reading it seems that making canelés can be a quite tricky and meticulous process, so you probably want to stick with the beeswax. They do sound delicious!
Answer: Try finding a small regional beekeeper, or a beekeeper selling over the Internet. Especially one of those who produce high-quality organic honey. He will probably have a range of other bee products. Even if he doesn't list or display wax for sale, he might have some, just ask.
I've mostly seen this type of beekeeper present at farmer's markets and similar places, but they are probably not so hard to find on the Internet.
Answer: I agree with rumtscho that a beekeeper would be the best place to go. In the event that you don't know any beekeepers, try the bulk section at a health food store or coop. They frequently have either small blocks or pellets that are sold by weight.


Buck converter - Maximum VIN of IC vs Maximum clamping voltage of TVS diode

Question: For the circuit below which uses a LMR14050SDDAR buck converter from Texas Instruments.
The absolute maximum VIN of the IC is 44V, and the capacitors are all of 50V. In practice VCC can be 36VDC continuous (worst case possible), so I choose a TVS diode which has 36V of Reverse Standoff (Typ) and 40V of Breakdown (Min). About the TVS diode choosen, it has a maximum clamping voltage of 58.1V @ Ipp of 25.8A. Will the buck converter be damaged easily this way due to short period peaks at the input? By voltage spikes in the order of microseconds? Do I really need a 60V+ buck converter to be safe?
Regards.
Answer:
Will the buck converter be damaged easily this way due to short period
peaks at the input? By voltage spikes in the order of microseconds? Do
I really need a 60V+ buck converter to be safe?

It's all about threats and victims.

You've named the victims and we know where their weaknesses are.
You've added a TVS that "might" offer a lot (or a little bit) of protection against an unspecified threat but,
You haven't stated what the threat is (and we cannot guess).
You need to ensure that your protection method (the TVS) doesn't become a victim.

The threat might be an indirect lightning strike that is modelled by a voltage pulse and a series resistance that can be as low as 2 Ω. That means that your TVS has to withstand a current pulse of maybe several thousand amps for maybe a hundred micro seconds. I'm talking about EN61000-4-5 and here are some of the pulses that can be used: -

So, you have to work out what specification corresponds with your threat. If EN 61000-4-5 indirect lightning is something you expect your circuit to survive AND you are happy with a 2 kV pulse (class 3) then the peak current into a short circuit is 1,000 amps and has a waveform shape like the lower one shown here: -

Picture above from here.
I've designed a surge suppressor capable of withstanding class 4 using several parallel TVS diodes so, it can be done. But, if your threat is ESD, then it's much easier in terms of finding a TVS that will survive.
One final word, you can pretty reliably model these surges using a simulator so, decide on your threat, check what the peak voltage is and what impedance it is sourced through. That dictates the pulse current your TVS has to withstand. Then check that the surge power rating isn't exceeded for the TVS and that the clamped  terminal voltage doesn't exceed your victim's limit and you are usually good to go.
Answer: Yes, it might get damaged. Although the capacitors probably will not charge in a microsecond, but a surge can still be longer than capacitors time constant. you can alternatively get a lower voltage TVS.
Additionally, the TVS itself is not invincible, and if you don't take care, it might be burned by a surge.
However, to answer whether you need to take another DC/DC, we would have to understand your application, other constraints. For example, it can be acceptable to burn a DC/DC in a rare case. Sometimes investing a month in RnD (not to replace a DC/DC, but just as an example) may have a lot more consequences than a damaged circuit here and there.
Comment: Depends what you are trying to achieve. Maybe the wires themselves have this 1Ohm.
Comment: adding a series resistor with the first diode, like 1 ohm, could help?


How big should a star be to turn into a black hole?

Question: My initial calculations show that if the radius of a star $-$ with a uniform mass density of $\rho$ $-$ is greater than $\frac{c}{2\sqrt{\pi G\rho/3}}$, the star would collapse into a black hole. However, I could not find any reference to check the result. Can anyone help me?
Comment: Fair enough, but that might be why you can't find a ref to check it against. (BTW, if you derived it from the standard formula for the Schwazschild radius, I think you're missing a 2 inside the square root). Also see https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/425914/123208
Comment: have a look at craig wheeler's book on stellar structure and evolution, it will probably answer all your questions.
Comment: A uniform density isn't very realistic, you can see the density profile of the Sun here: https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/a/32734/16685
Comment: @PM2Ring Yes, I know it. I just presume a uniform density to make the calculations easier.
Answer: I guess you have done something like
$$R < \frac{2GM}{c^2} = \frac{8\pi G \rho R^3}{3c^2}$$
$$ R > \sqrt{\frac{3}{8\pi G\rho}}c$$
But I cannot see how this inequality is useful. It is just a statement that if the radius of a star is less than the Schwarzschild radius, then it is a black hole, not that it will collapse and become one. It has no diagnostic value because the density of the star obviously changes when you change its radius.
The first equation is more useful, because in some circumstances you can assume that $M$ is fixed. However it underestimates the upper limit to the radius. Collapse to a black hole becomes inevitable in GR (at least in the Schwarzschild metric) when $R < 9R_s/8$, (the Buchdahl limit) and probably a bit higher for realistic equations of state at high densities.
Answer: Check out the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit. The collapse to a black hole depends on mass
Answer: If a star is collapsing into a black hole, it is reasonable to conclude that its density is not constant. As a star runs out of fuel, its temperature decreases, which means molecules have less energy and can resist gravity less. This means the star will compress, and density will increase. So just because a star is currently not dense enough to form a black hole doesn't mean it can't turn into a black hole later. According to this site, it take about three times the mass of our sun to form a black hole.


How do I Create Tablespace in Oracle 11g?

Question: I am not too savvy in Oracle, and I have been trying to create a TABLESPACE, which keep on giving me an error message of invalid file name. Below is the syntax that I have used:
SQL> create Tablespace HRMT
2 datafile
3 size
4 ;
size
*
ERROR at line 3:
ORA-02236: invalid file name

My book and all websites that I have been to suggest that I specify the file path for the DATAFILE, and when I specify a path, I get another error message.
SQL> create tablespace vania
2 datafile 'home/oracle/hait/'
3 size 10M
4 ;
create tablespace vania
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01119: error in creating database file 'home/oracle/hait/'
ORA-27040: file create error, unable to create file
Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory

Do I need to create the datafile first before I can create the TABLESPACE? Are there pre-existing datafiles in the database that I can use? What would be the proper syntax to create a tablespace and/or a datafile? How and where do I create a .dbf file to create the tablespace?
Comment: I know it's a very very late answer, but what do you suppose that database administrators do? :-)
Comment: Voting for migration to ServerFault, because this is about administration of a database.
Answer: The answer to your question can be found in the SQL Language Reference (excerpt follows).

Creating Basic Tablespaces: Examples
This statement creates a tablespace
  named tbs_01 with one data file:
CREATE TABLESPACE tbs_01 DATAFILE 'tbs_f2.dbf' SIZE 40M     ONLINE;

It sound like you are new to Oracle databases.  Oracle provides a wealth of documentation at http://docs.oracle.com/en/database.  Specifically, I recommend reading their excellent introduction to the database called the Concepts Guide.
Answer: Obviously, if you want a datafile, you have to give it a name:
SQL> create tablespace vania
2 datafile '/home/oracle/hait/vania01.dbf'
3 size 10M
4 ;

There are loads of examples of this if you do a very simple search.
Comment: rtfg eh? hey I will search that....
Comment: Just google it with Bing...
Answer: For this kind of very basic questions like
"How to create a tablespace in Oracle?"
I would strongly recommend the very good Online Documentation.
In the particular case, you get from there to Oracle® Database Administrator's Guide
11g Release 2 (11.2) - Creating Tablespaces
Answer: CREATE TABLESPACE <tablespace_name>
  DATAFILE 'datafile_name.dbf'
  SIZE 20M AUTOEXTEND ON;

where 20M is size of your datafile.
AutoExtend On => size is automatically extended as the datafile is filled.
Answer: Be sure that your datafile folder exists. On UNIX do the following:
ls /home/oracle/hait  #if you get an error here, it means you need to create the folder first

mkdir -p /home/oracle/hait

Finally, if you are in Oracle 11g where tablespace management is purely local, you can
do the following:
create tablespace vania datafile '/home/oracle/hait/vania01.dbf' size 10M;

This will not work in Oracle 7 or 8i; you have to clearly specify how your extents are going to be managed.
Answer: SQL> create tablespace vania
2 datafile 'D:/home/oracle/hait/vania01.dbf'
3 size 10M
4 ;

Comment: Could you explain on this a little further?
Answer: create tablespace MY_TB
datafile 'D:\app\Administrator\oradata\MYORA\MY_TB.dbf'
uniform size 33K
max size unlimited
extend management local
segmentspace management manual
auto extend on next 40K
disable logging
/


Are all Autoreceptors Downregulated by their Respective Endogenous Ligands?

Question: I know that the 5-HT1A and $\alpha$2 adrenoreceptors receptors serve as autoreceptors for serotonin (5-HT) and norepinephrine respectively and are down-regulated by repeat exposure to their respective ligands, it's believed that this is likely the cause for the therapeutic delay in the actions of antidepressants that target the serotonergic and noradrenergic systems.  My question is this: "Is this the case for all autoreceptors? Are all autoreceptors down-regulated by the actions of their respective ligands?"
Answer: Autoreceptors - are receptors of the presynaptic terminal.
α2 adrenoreceptors receptors are down-regulated due to repeated exposure.

Pharmacodynamic tolerance begins when the cellular response to a substance is reduced with repeated use. A common cause of pharmacodynamic tolerance is high concentrations of a substance constantly binding with the receptor, desensitizing it through constant interaction

This is a common occurrence - not just for autoreceptors but receptors in general.
But for your interest here is one for dopamine autoreceptors (Pay-wall).


Texture problem

Question: I'm having problem importing a texture, sometimes it comes out fine, but sometimes it comes out a bit weird, like in the screenshot I'm sending.
Does someone knows why this is happening?
Thank you
Comment: did you you UV unwrap your mesh?
Comment: It would be useful if you could show us the texture that's messing up and maybe also the uv map
Comment: can you describe your method of applying texture so we can tell where you went wrong.
Answer: I don't know if this will answer your question or not. But I way you might be able to fix it is change your mesh's material to Diffuse BSDF. Go into the Node editor and add an Image Texture Add > Texture > Image Texture. Open the image you want to use and connect the color to the color on the diffuse node. Then unwrap your mesh. Here is a screenshot.  ![Screenshot
]1 Sorry if this doesn't help.
Answer: I don't know if this will help,but when i was trying to place any texture or even the uv test map(the chequer board) onto the standard cube ,only a few sides of the cube would show the texture,and the other sides of the cube would be black.
Turns out the problem was caused by the lamp(the light source).Which was lighting only the sides of the cube that it was pointing at(just like a real lamp/light would do)
So all i did was press the tab key,to change into object mode,then select the lamp and press the x key and delete the lamp.
This had me stumped for two days.
(i should also point out that this only worked for me when i use blender render.If i switch to cycles render,then the cube won't show the texture,just a solid grey coating)

Texture problem


Assigning function to function pointer, const argument correctness?

Question: I am learning the basics of C++ and OOP in my university now. I am not 100% sure how a function pointer works when assigning functions to them. I encountered the following code:
void mystery7(int a, const double b) { cout << "mystery7" << endl; }
const int mystery8(int a, double b) { cout << "mystery8" << endl; }

int main() {
    void(*p1)(int, double) = mystery7;            /* No error! */
    void(*p2)(int, const double) = mystery7;
    const int(*p3)(int, double) = mystery8;
    const int(*p4)(const int, double) = mystery8; /* No error! */
}

From my understanding, the p2 and p3 assignments are fine as the function parameters types match and const-ness is correct. But why don't the p1 and p4 assignments fail? Shouldn't it be illegal to match const double/int to non-const double/int?
Comment: Maybe the example could be more interesting with const mon const reference. Since mystery 7 and 8 are called by value, technically they are always const (or more precise: unchangeable).
Comment: @lalala That's a real confusion of terms/ideas. Immutability and identity are unrelated concepts.
Comment: @lalala And if you changed the example in the way you suggest, there would no longer be a question (because this behaviour is specifically about pass-by-value)
Answer: According to the C++ Standard (C++ 17, 16.1 Overloadable declarations)

(3.4) — Parameter declarations that differ only in the presence or
  absence of const and/or volatile are equivalent. That is, the const
  and volatile type-specifiers for each parameter type are ignored when
  determining which function is being declared, defined, or called.

So in the process of determining of the function type the qualifier const for example of the second parameter of the function declaration below is discarded.
void mystery7(int a, const double b);

and the function type is void( int, double ).
Also consider the following function declaration
void f( const int * const p );

It is equivalent to the following declaration
void f( const int * p );

It is the second const that makes the parameter constant (that is it declares the pointer itself as a constant object that can not be reassigned inside the function). The first const defines the type of the pointer. It is not discarded.
Pay attention to that though in the C++ Standard there is used the term "const reference" references themselves can not be constant opposite to pointers. That is the following declaration
int & const x = initializer;

is incorrect.
While this declaration
int * const x = initializer;

is correct and declares a constant pointer.
Comment: @edwardlam0328 Parameters are local variables of functions that are initialized with arguments uisng copy initialization. You can imagine it the following way. void f( int x ); const int i = 10; f( i ); void f( /*int x*/ ) { int x = i; /*...*/ } That is this declaration int x = i; is valid and a constant can be used as an initializer.
Comment: @edwardlam0328 More or less, yes. The language designers didn't _have_ to make it this way (and, after all, `const` on a value still has purpose and meaning inside the function body!). But they did so that the callsite doesn't have to care, I guess.
Comment: Thanks for the quick reply. This surely is some new concepts that I now grab on. But what happens when I try to pass (const int, double) to *p4? Will that in turn cause compilation error as the pointer points to a function with (int, double) parameters?
Comment: @edwardlam0328 No, the two are treated equivalently, per the rule Vlad quoted.
Comment: Your quoted standardese is about lookup, not about function types, no?
Comment: Thank you all for reminding me about pass by value! I forgot this key concept. So if I understand it right, because pass-by-value parameters create a local copy inside the function body, so it does not affect the original const-type variable passed, so this way we are sort-of bypassing the const restriction?

And this is why declaring the function pointer as (const int, double) or (int, double) will not make a difference, correct?
Comment: `const` on a parameter's value *only* has meaning inside the function's body, so the question is less "why are these compatible" and more "why is it permitted to qualify parameters at all". Although technically the same could be said for parameter names and those are useful for documentation/readability, so there's an argument to allow it.
Answer: There is a special rule for function arguments passed by value.
Although const on them will affect their usage inside the function (to prevent accidents), it's basically ignored on the signature. That's because the constness of an object passed by value has no effect whatsoever on the original copied-from object at the call site.
That's what you're seeing.
(Personally I think that this design decision was a mistake; it's confusing and unnecessary! But it is what it is. Note that it comes from the same passage that silently changes void foo(T arg[5]); into void foo(T* arg);, so there's plenty of hokey bullsh!t in there already that we have to deal with!)
Do recall, though, that this doesn't just erase any const in such an argument's type. In int* const the pointer is const, but in int const* (or const int*) the pointer is non-const but is to a const thing. Only the first example relates to constness of the pointer itself and will be stripped.

[dcl.fct]/5 The type of a function is determined using the following rules. The type of each parameter (including function parameter packs) is determined from its own decl-specifier-seq and declarator. After determining the type of each parameter, any parameter of type "array of T" or of function type T is adjusted to be "pointer to T". After producing the list of parameter types, any top-level cv-qualifiers modifying a parameter type are deleted when forming the function type. The resulting list of transformed parameter types and the presence or absence of the ellipsis or a function parameter pack is the function's parameter-type-list. [ Note: This transformation does not affect the types of the parameters. For example, int(*)(const int p, decltype(p)*) and int(*)(int, const int*) are identical types. — end note ]
Comment: IMO it was a good decision -- whether or not the function implementation wants to modify the copied object is not something that the caller should have to know.
Comment: @M.M That's a "nice to have" at best, and one that creates a special case in the type system, leading to confusion like the OP's
Answer: There is a situation where adding or removing a const qualifier to a function argument is a serious bug.  It comes when you pass an argument by pointer.
Here's a simple example of what could go wrong.  This code is broken in C:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

// char * strncpy ( char * destination, const char * source, size_t num );

/* Undeclare the macro required by the C standard, to get a function name that
 * we can assign to a pointer:
 */
#undef strncpy

// The correct declaration:
char* (*const fp1)(char*, const char*, size_t) = strncpy;
// Changing const char* to char* will give a warning:
char* (*const fp2)(char*, char*, size_t) = strncpy;
// Adding a const qualifier is actually dangerous:
char* (*const fp3)(const char*, const char*, size_t) = strncpy;

const char* const unmodifiable = "hello, world!";

int main(void)
{
  // This is undefined behavior:
  fp3( unmodifiable, "Whoops!", sizeof(unmodifiable) );

  fputs( unmodifiable, stdout );
  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

The problem here is with fp3.  This is a pointer to a function that accepts two const char* arguments.  However, it points to the standard library call strncpy()¹, whose first argument is a buffer that it modifies.  That is, fp3( dest, src, length ) has a type that promises not to modify the data dest points to, but then it passes the arguments on to strncpy(), which modifies that data!  This is only possible because we changed the type signature of the function.
Trying to modify a string constant is undefined behavior—we effectively told the program to call strncpy( "hello, world!", "Whoops!", sizeof("hello, world!") )—and on several different compilers I tested with, it will fail silently at runtime.
Any modern C compiler should allow the assignment to fp1 but warn you that you're shooting yourself in the foot with either fp2 or fp3.  In C++, the fp2 and fp3 lines will not compile at all without a reinterpret_cast.  Adding the explicit cast makes the compiler assume you know what you're doing and silences the warnings, but the program still fails due to its undefined behavior.
const auto fp2 =
  reinterpret_cast<char*(*)(char*, char*, size_t)>(strncpy);
// Adding a const qualifier is actually dangerous:
const auto fp3 =
  reinterpret_cast<char*(*)(const char*, const char*, size_t)>(strncpy);

This doesn't arise with arguments passed by value, because the compiler makes copies of those.  Marking a parameter passed by value const just means the function doesn't expect to need to modify its temporary copy.  For example, if the standard library internally declared char* strncpy( char* const dest, const char* const src, const size_t n ), it would not be able to use the K&R idiom *dest++ = *src++;.  This modifies the function's temporary copies of the arguments, which we declared const.  Since this doesn't affect the rest of the program, C doesn't mind if you add or remove a const qualifier like that in a function prototype or function pointer.  Normally, you don't make them part of the public interface in the header file, since they're an implementation detail.
¹ Although I use strncpy() as an example of a well-known function with the right signature, it is deprecated in general.
Comment: Note that the usage `strncpy(buf, src, sizeof(buf)); fputs(buf, stdout);` is incorrect in general, since the output of strncpy is not null-terminated if `src` does not fit in `buf`
Comment: @M.M I could've written the example with `memcpy()`, but I think it serves its purpose here?
Comment: @M.M Added a footnote.


Identification green plane-tail-like pieces

Question: Any idea from which set these pieces do come from?
Comment: Welcome to Brick.SE.  Thanks for the clear picture with a nice background of a different color than the part. :)
Answer: These are Sand Green Tail Shuttle pieces, found only in 2509: Earth Dragon Defense - exactly 4 pieces per set:
Comment: @ThorbjørnRavnAndersen I recognized the shuttle tail piece from my own Space Shuttle set, and started with looking up 2x3 modified plates. There were way too much of those, so I focused on the colour instead and got a hunch that it has Ninjago dragon vibes. From there it was quite straightforward.
Comment: Out of curiosity how did you identify them?


Prove that $p(x)$ is irreducible in $F[x]$

Question: Let $F$ be a field and let $K$ be an extension of $F$. Let $\alpha$ be algebraic over $F$. Let $p(x)$ be the polynomial of minimal degree having $\alpha$ as a root. Prove that $p(x)$ is irreducible in $F[x]$. This is a new concept for me about field extension and i am having difficulty with this and understanding the notation because i kept confusing myself with quotient. I was thinking is it safe to say that $$F[x]/(p(x)) \cong F$$ since $F$ is a field thus $F[x]/(p(x))$ is also a field and also a finite integral domain thus $p(x)$ is maximal, hence prime thus in an integral domain a prime element is always irreducible. Therefore $p(x)$ is irreducible.
Comment: @Matt Samuel i was wondering if you could check on my reasoning for this problem about what i have said in the post and let me know if that is understandable or not. thanks
Comment: It's false that the quotient is isomorphic to $F$. It's true that it's a field, but we don't know that because that is what we are trying to prove.
Comment: oh ok thanks that was the only approach i had in this problem. Well thanks for your help i truly appreciate it.
Comment: Good enough answers have been posted already so I do not see the point in answering your question but have something to point out. Make sure you accept answers to show appreciation to the answer. (I saw that you have not accepted any answers in any of your question so far)
Answer: Hints:
== $\;p(x)\;$ is irreducible $\;\implies p(x)=g(x)h(x)\implies g(x)\,\,or\,\,h(x)\;$ is constant
== $\;p(x)\;$ is the minimal polynomial of $\;\alpha\;$ over $\;\Bbb F\implies\;\forall\;h(x)\in\Bbb F[x]\;$  , then  $\;h(\alpha)=0\iff p(x)\mid h(x)\;$ .
Further hint for the second hint: divide with residue (Euclidean Algorithm) $\;h(x)\;$ by $\;p(x)\;$ and apply the condition $\;h(\alpha)=0\;$ and minimality of $\;p(x)\;$.
Answer: Suppose $p(x)=q(x)r(x)$ with both $q$ and $r$ of positive degree, necessarily strictly smaller than the degree of $p$. Then $q(\alpha)r(\alpha)=0$, so either $q(\alpha)=0$ or $r(\alpha)=0$, contradicting the assumption that the degree was minimal.


How to clone sharepoint project?

Question: I have a sharepoint project and it already went on a production. I want to clone that site so I can use if I want to make changes before I touch the production site. is there any way to create a duplicate of my site so I can work offline?
Comment: From your tags I am unable to understand whether you are using SharePoint Online or On-Prem? Whether you have enterprise version or foundation version?
Answer: You can reach that using powershell (Backup-SPSite / Restore-SPSite)
Reference here

How to clone sharepoint project?


Project Euler 348: Sum of a square and a cube

Question:
Many numbers can be expressed as the sum of a square and a cube. Some of them in more than one way.
Consider the palindromic numbers that can be expressed as the sum of a
  square and a cube, both greater than 1, in exactly 4 different ways.
  For example, 5229225 is a palindromic number and it can be expressed
  in exactly 4 different ways:
22852 + 203
22232 + 663
18102 + 1253
11972 + 1563
Find the sum of the five smallest such palindromic numbers.

I used brute force; it solves in around 11 seconds. I thought about it for some time but couldn't come up with any obvious optimizations, the problem seems built for brute force. Any suggestions?
Note that I'm using PyPy which makes math code run much faster...
<code>"""Find the sum of the five smallest palindromic numbers
that can be expressed as the sum of a square and a cube."""

from math import log10
from collections import Counter
from timeit import default_timer as timer

def is_palindrome(n):
    length = int(log10(n))
    while length > 0:
        right = n % 10
        left = n / 10**length
        if right != left:
            return False
        n %= 10**length
        n /=10
        length -= 2
    return True

start = timer()
palindromes = Counter()

for square in xrange(1, 30000):
    squared = square**2
    for cube in xrange(1, 3000):
        cubed = cube**3
        total = squared + cubed
        if is_palindrome(total): palindromes[total] += 1

ans = sum(x[0] for x in palindromes.most_common(5))
elapsed_time = timer() - start
print "Found %d in %d s." % (ans, elapsed_time)
</code>
Comment: I can't test it, but how well does your `is_palindrome` match up to [the string version](http://stackoverflow.com/q/17331290/359284) on PyPy?
Answer: @Kevin Brown is correct, your programme runs in 18 seconds on my PC, if I write:
<code>def is_palindrome(n):
    return str(n) == str(n)[::-1]
</code>
it takes only 16 seconds.
Comment: You using PyPy? On my computer it runs in around 20s with that version.


What does the Arduino ethernet shield connect to?

Question: I am thinking about buying an Aurdino ethernet shield, but I am not sure what it connects to. On the back of my iMac there is a blue plug which goes into the computer, which I think is the ethernet plug. Would I just plug that into the ethernet shield?
Comment: What would you do with an Arduino ethernet shield when you don't even know what an ethernet port looks like?
Comment: Then all you need to do is get a cross over cable plug it into a free slot in the airport and into the arduino Ethernet shield. But the Ethernet shield wont work without an Arduino.. What are you trying to do anyway?
Comment: The other end of the wire is connected to an Airport.
Answer: Number 2 is the ethernet port.

On the left is an Ethernet port and the right a Modem/Telephone port.

In order to connect with one wire you need to use a Cross-Over cables and set IP addresses in the same range for both devices! 192.168.x.x; 10.0.0.x .. etc.  (or set your mac as a DHCP server)

If you don't want to use the cross over system then you will need a router that has a DHCP server and assigns IP's to each device automatically. And then check the Router on its ARP table what the IP of your Arduino Ether shield is for communication.
If you have a newer airport then you can plug the Arduino Ethersield into any one of the free ports on the Right Side

If you have an old airport then you will need to get a switch and remove the Blue cable form your Imac. and plug it into the switch. Then get 2 new cables and connect your iMac to the switch and the Arduino EtherShield to your Switch.

Here are some setup examples
Answer: An ethernet port looks similar to a phone line port. What you're talking about most likely is the ethernet port, however, the shield is to allow your Arduino to send/receive internet communications. You'd be more likely to install the other end of the cable to an open slot on your router or modem.
Comment: the only possible issue here is that not everyone has their router or modem right next to the PC / Mac.  For example, mine is in a closet, and my iMac is in another room, and my iMac also connects via wireless only.
Comment: I solved this issue with a 15ft ethernet cable, if you use a magjack socket on the board (I assume the shield does) then so long as you don't get silly you can use some very long cables indeed.
Answer: You can do that, provided that the ethernet shield auto-switches.  If not, you have to connect your Mac and Arduino to a switch or hub.
EDIT -- like ppumkin says, you can also use a crossover cable.  I don't know how I forgot about that solution.  :)


'93 Ford Ranger 3.0L V6 Engine Only Runs Without Fan

Question: I've recently replaced the belt tension pulley and a little after a week the engine had trouble running. The next day I tried to start it it wouldn't run without constantly pressing on the gas while in neutral. I started removing components that I had removed to change the pulley; the exhaust intake hose and the fan. Low and behold, the engine runs without the fan attached! The fan seems to be the Achilles heel. The engine runs fine without the fan, but as soon as it is attached (the only alteration to configuration), the engine quickly sputters and dies. I've had an ex-mechanic look at it and he was completely stumped. The belt and connected system all seem to operate fine as well. Any help would be appreciated.
Answer: If the fan is installed
Check if it has any play by placing one of the blades at about 12-o'clock and applying light pressure in and out. (top goes toward firewall and the blade at roughly 6pm would push outward.)
You should have very little play here. If the fan isn't installed then you can just grab the water-pump shaft _(where the pulley should be bolted to)_ and give it a good wiggle. If there is bearing play you should hear it clicking or knocking when doing this. If there's is a significant amount of play in the pump then replace it.
Reasoning behind condemning the water-pump
With the fan clutch installed, the pump will have added weight to the very end of the shaft. This in turn will cause an excess of pressure to be put on the bearings inside the pump. If the bearing are worn it may cause the pump to seize at this point. If you and your friend check it together this could be tested with one person in the vehicle keeping it running while the  other observes the water-pump pulley to make sure that it's turning.
Answer: Things to check:

Fan could be bent, causing it to be off balance.
Check and see that you didn't somehow bump the timing. If the distributor is lose, you could have knocked it out of timing when replacing the belt, then bumped it back into the same area while pulling the fan off.

Otherwise, I'm as stumped as your mechanic! :)


Tracing polyline between two points in ArcGIS Desktop?

Question: How i can draw a line between two points...e.g.: I have initial point and endpoint
and i need trace a line between this points...how i can do that?
Comment: Trace or Create? think the word trace is different - tracing is another function using a vector base map. Think the word 'create' is better.
Answer: Create a polyline feature class or a shapefile, load it into the map, start editing, turn snapping on, draw line from one point to the next, stop editing. Is this what you are asking about?
Answer: ArcGIS 10 New Snapping:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/About_snapping/001t0000003t000000/
and Classic Snapping:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#/About_the_editing_classic_snapping_environment/001t00000046000000/
Set your tolerances:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//001t00000040000000.htm
Classic Mapping:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//001t00000048000000.htm


Manually write an audio file

Question: I want to write an audio file (the particular format does not matter to me) by hand, i.e. for each frame I would write manually which frequencies are present at which intensity. How do I do this? Is there some specialized software for this?
Comment: I can't flag (when I press 'Flag' it doesn't do anything)
Comment: it looks like you didn't take the time to actually register, so stack exchange has no idea the two posts are supposed to be the same person. I've no idea how you get round that.
Comment: It is not clear at all what you want to do. In it's current state, a valid solution to your problem (since you state that the file format is irrelevant) would be: 1. open a text editor, 2. enter numbers or letters representing "frequencies" and their "intensity" for each "frame", 3. save the file. I guess this is not what you intended. We are able to help if you describe exactly what you want to achieve. In which format are "frequencies" and their "intensity" available? Do you want to be able to play back this file in real time, or is it acceptable to read the entire file before playback?
Answer: Are you sure you want to? An audio file contains samples. Each sample is the amplitude at a specific moment. Amplitudes should be both positive and negative. The sound you hear is because the amplitude changes over time. You may look at the wave form in just about any audio editor, lets say Audacity and then zoom in.
Typically you would have 44100 samples each second, the old CD standard. In order to make, say a 441 Hertz sound (a very slightly sharp mid A), you have to enter 100 samples in order to get one wave form. The value would modulate between, say, +1 and -1 start at zero in beginning, pass zero in the middle and end up at zero. You could then copy this 441 times to get one second of sound.
As for +1 and -1 above, it depends on the software you use. In a 16 bit wave file it would be around +32700 and -32700 for a max volume sound, less if you want to decrease the volume.
You could use Audacity to make this, but it would be tedious. The typical way to make a sound is instead to use a software synth, set it to perhaps sine oscillator and then play it.
Answer: You could try the following instructions and create a 5s file with a sine waveform : sox -n a.wav  synth 5 sin 440
Answer: As a beginner, I followed this tutorial to write a .wav file from scratch.
If you just pust your values in a table instead of the sinewave he's making in the tutorial it should be pretty much what you wanted to do.
https://youtu.be/rHqkeLxAsTc
http://soundfile.sapp.org/doc/WaveFormat
Have a great day !

Manually write an audio file


Is it possible to have the D-Link DIR-628 run in wireless bridge mode?

Question: Short of installing 3rd party software, does the D-Link DIR-628 run in bridged wireless?
I'm trying to have the dlink hook up to an existing linksys wireless router to add more range/get stronger signal.
Answer: From my research it appears that the DIR-628 does not seam to support WDS, and isn't even supported by tomato or dd-wrt.  Unfortunately you may be out of luck.


Are hemp, flax, chia, and sesame generally raw?

Question: Are hemp, flax, chia, and sesame generally sold raw, or is heating processing used to isolate these seeds?
Comment: In which country? The laws and practices are likely to vary between different countries.
Comment: @Nic United States
Answer: It seems like heat processing (Pasteurization) is normally used for all of these seeds, unless otherwise marked.

Hemp seeds (hemp hearts)
One brain claims that many other brands of hemp seeds are heat-sterilized. This is supported by an answer on Quora which indicates that hemp seeds imported into the United States are sterilized.
Flax seeds
This 2015 article on NPR explains about a warehouse that performs heat treatment on flax and chia seeds.
Chia seeds
See above about NPR article.
Sesame seeds
This random webpage claims that there is no such thing as a raw sesame seed.


Can a Current Limiter Power Thermistor be used in line to reduce the brightness of a 120v incandescent bulb?

Question: I have an application were I do not have the room for a dimmer switch but need to reduce the lumens of a 120v 25w incandescent bulb just a bit. There used to be a product called the Bulb Saver Button which was placed in the light bulb socket to reduce power consumption and increase the life of the bulb. It also reduced the brightness of the bulb. This would work for me but this product is no longer available. I'm wondering if I simply put, in line, a Current Limiter Power Thermistor, would it do the trick? I found on ebay this 10D-15 Inrush Current Limiter Power Thermistors 10ohms 5 AMP. Would this work like the Bulb Saver Buttons?
Answer: You could use a common diode in series with the bulb, which will reduce its brightness significantly. The advantage of a diode is that the amount of power wasted in the diode is much less than if you used a resistor to do the same thing.
Answer: No, this Thermistor would change almost nothing.
For your bulb when directly on the mains, the current is: 25 W / 120 V = 0.21 A
And that means the bulb will have a resistance of 120 V / 0.21 A = 580 ohms.
Adding a 10 Ohms thermistor to that is insignificant as you'd get 590 ohms. Then the thermistor would heat up and get an even lower resistance. So in total, nothing significant changes. That thermistor is used in power supplies which need to charge large capacitors at startup. It will do nothing for your lightbulb.
Better ideas:

use a bulb with a lower power.
use two bulbs in series

A bit more "nasty" but it works: use a diode in series with the bulb. Since mains is AC, the diode will block one direction of the current. Your bulb will be somewhat flickery but also significantly less bright. Use a 1N4007 diode, these are common and cheap.
Comment: I wonder what a ""Bulb Saver Button" uses
Answer: If you do use the thermistor it might dim a bit, but you will waste the power as heat and end up with a very hot thermistor. The thermistor only acts to limit inrush current (which does save the life of incandescent) and is not intended for use as a dimmer. You'd be better off using a series resistor.
A better way would be to use a  solid state dimmer switch which varies the power by use timing, these are available everywhere. Or get a 20W or 15W bulb.
Comment: Thanks for all this great information. I will try a diode. I wonder what a ""Bulb Saver Button" uses.


Clamped flexible rubber pipe/hose coupling won't seal completely

Question: This is a coupling between the ABS pipe from a sump pump and a check valve so needs to be removable. Does one apply any sealant to make a leak-proof joint? I tried different tightness on the hose clamp, replacing the hose clamp altogether, and rotating the coupling, none of which is able to seal the joint completely. The leak seems to move a little when I rotate the coupling, but there is no visible cracks on it or the pipe.
Comment: Welcome here @P.B. You should probably provide some more details including taking a picture of the parts with the problematic joint disassembled.
Comment: Thanks for the suggestion. Since I now got it to a position that leaks the least, I'll take a picture when the pump no longer operates as frequently. The joint looks pretty unremarkable though. One end is an ABS pipe (from the check valve) and the other end almost identical to [this](https://i.stack.imgur.com/JUpY1.jpg).
Answer: I repaired a friend's sump and discovered the value of the "check valve" because his system did not have one lol.  If it's not sealing though you're sure you have more than tightened the clamp, then the size different between the hoses is too great.  Might need a reducer/spacer to go between the backflow valve and the PVC pipe.  BUT... it looks like you've actually already done that now that I look at the pic closer lol.
SO... at this point, if it were me... I'd go get some FLEXSEAL or silicone.  Take the leaky joint apart, and apply some.  re-attach.  Wait for cure (24 hours) before testing for leak again.  Be aware that FLEXSEAL will permanently bond with rubber (because it is liquid rubber), so be careful where you apply it.
Comment: I have the exact issue. Flex connector wouldn't seal against the very old concrete pipe. I went to Home Depot and they said I can't apply any of the proposed solution because my pipe is wet at the moment. Anything else that works in wet environments instead of Flex-Seal or Silicone?
Answer: Is your check valve upside down?  or is your ceiling concrete and have a wet spot?
I typically use a 2" pvc union.  Is that check valve spring operated or just a gravity flap?  The union allows disconnect without being a clamp based fitting.
Don't put any kind of sealing compound on the furnco - rubber doesn't like chemicals.
Comment: The picture is looking down, with valve & pipe in horizontal position, and the valve label is facing up, so I believe the check valve must be spring operated (since there is no back flow). Is clamp fitting known to be this finicky? I was just reading up on connecting PVC fittings to ABS pipe, and it looks like it requires a rubber transition coupling with clamps..
Comment: You can use transition glue for abs to pvc.  The furnco connectors are used all the time in commercial - they shouldn't leak.  Possible that check valve has a weird size the furnco connectors are rated for specific pipe sizes.  I'd check what it says on the furnco for size and measure the check valve size.  Spring operated check valves aren't as good as the flap style.  So the flow arrows are pointing away from your pump, correct?


Why is my Illustrator design exporting as an EPS and making white things transparent and transparent things with a white color block behind it?

Question: I have talked to several other designers and they can't figure it out. I've read multiple forums and have tried everything they recommend to no avail. My client wants the center glow effect as seen. I've taken it apart piece by piece and narrowed it down to confirm it's the glow causing the problem. I've tried creating the glow, I've tried purchasing a vector glow and inserting it - all have the same result.
In Illustrator, it looks perfect. If I export as a PNG, it looks perfect. If I export as an EPS, the white points of the compass become transparent (they should be white) and the center glow has a white color block behind it (it should be have a gradient transparency). I am at a complete loss on what to do. Is it not possible to have a vector image with a glow?
This is what it should look like when on a colored background.

This is what the EPS looks like when on a colored background. (NOTICE the white section of the compass points are now transparent and the white glow has the color block.)
Answer: This may provide an answer although not specific to your file: Why do EPS (vector) file formats require a specified resolution?
Glows, blurs and the like must fade to something. Since an EPS is a flat file format, they fade to white unless there is a colored object behind them, then they fade to that colored object. When you save as EPS, a raster image gets created automatically and a clipping path added to indicate the area of the glow or blur.
In your image, that flare in the middle is converted to an embedded raster image with a clipping path when you save it as an eps.
The big question may be why are you using EPS at all? Unless you've specifically beed asked for an EPS file it is often better to simply use .ai or .pdf which will maintain the transparency without flattening. Of course, if you are a QuarkXpress user EPS may be a valid format for you (lord knows why they haven't sorted that though).
If you have been specifically asked for an EPS and the client is specifically requesting soft-edged objects like glows and blurs, it may benefit you to try and educate the client a bit about what is and is not well-supported in EPS formats, why EPS has become a less-common format and why PDF is customarily better. There are times when clients learn buzzwords and use them because they've become accustomed to them. "EPS" is one such buzzword - they know they want vector, and they know EPS often means vector, so they ask for an EPS. But they probably aren't aware of advances in file formats over the past several years.
Comment: That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!

They have specifically requested an EPS file for large format printing they will be having done (signage, etc.). I try to always include the EPS file for my clients so that they have everything they need for any project they will ever use their logo on. Is there a better option I'm not aware of?
Comment: Well, you might be able to use a radial gradient there. I'm not sure *how* you configured that flare in the middle. Or if the globe itself is causing the rasterization and flattening. The best option is generally PDF or AI, but with EPS it really comes down to file constructions and some things just aren't easy in EPS form.
Comment: Scott kind of already said this, but in case it wasn't perfectly clear: a PDF file is actually better suited for large format printing (assuming everything is vector) than the EPS file because it does support that transparency without rasterizing it. EPS used to be the vector standard, but there are better options available now. Even if a client of mine _specifically_ asked for an EPS file, I would try have a conversation with them about why they want an EPS, and if there might be better alternatives (such as PDF) to meet their needs.