I'm wondering if it's ever brought up in the books or other sources about the wizarding world whether or not ghosts can pass on into the afterlife.   Are there any documented instances of this happening? If not, then is it ever brought up that they theoretically can pass on?
In Harry Potter, we know ghosts became ghosts when they are too afraid of death to go on - I thought about it and I'm quite certain they all go to their own version of Harry's King's Cross and become ghosts when they return as Harry did.  So can they return there? Once they've been a ghost long enough that they no longer fear death, can they move on?
I want to compile my program with the latest version of gcc.  Ubuntu 14.04 comes with gcc 4.8.2, however there's 4.9.0 available, moreover, I see that it is available as a package: . I tried to install it  sudo apt-get install gcc-4.9   but it says  Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree        Reading state information... Done Note, selecting 'gcc-4.9-base' for regex 'gcc-4.9' gcc-4.9-base is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.   Looks like it is already installed, just not as the default one? How do I utilize it to build my program? Ownership of content in Community Wiki posts GPG Error while downloading software: "Clearsigned file isn't valid, got 'NODATA'" Inconsistency in display of animated avatars It has been discussed previously that animated avatars are disliked because they cause a distraction from the content. However, currently animated avatars are not treated consistently.   On desktop, animated avatars are displayed as a still image, both in posts and on the profile page. On mobile, animated avatars are displayed as a still image in posts, but animated on the profile page.   I'm tagging this  because I'm guessing one of these two is unintended. Either avatars should animate on the profile page on both desktop and mobile, or on neither. (I sincerely hope that we are all agreed there should be no animation of avatars in posts.)  Example animated profile    This appears to animate on mobile, and show a still image on desktop (for myself and for other users who have tried).    I'd also like to hear arguments for and against animating only on the profile page, but the main purpose of this post is to clear up the inconsistency. Should I mention my Canadian visa refusal in my UK visa application? How do I create a 50x3 cell array from a 50x3 matrix. Keep just getting a 1x1 cell array with a 50x3 submatrix? Laptop power supplies, does current matter? I have two laptops (same manufacture), with the same type of power connector.  However, the power supplies/transformers are slightly different.    The output on the first laptop's power supply is 15.6&nbsp;V at 8.0&nbsp;A. The output on the second laptop's power supply is 15.6&nbsp;V at 5&nbsp;A.  Clearly the voltages are the same, but the currents are different. I assume the second laptop's power supply can not be used on the first, because it can't supply enough power to the laptop.   However, can the first laptop's power supply be safely used on the second laptop? I use to work at night and it is eye-hurting to watch at lightbulb-bright screens (I've got two - laptop's built-in panel and an external 18-inch CRT) in a dark environment. So I adjust my screens to be darker.  Can I do this a software way instead of pressing monitors' buttons that many times every time? Should I wait for a recession to buy a home? I am currently renting, but am considering buying a house in the future (1-3 years). I want to know if I should even consider waiting for a future recession to buy a home at a better price. Some would argue that we are due for a recession (seems common enough to not need a reference), though none of us can know this is imminent with certainty.   I would not mind waiting to buy if it means my money would go further. However, if I wait and the market does not come down, I risk the inverse as the cost of homes in my area is rising faster than inflation.  All other considerations aside, should I wait for a recession to buy a home and what other risks does this carry? Custom first page with fancyhdr I'm using the package fancyhdr to format my footers and headers, with my name in the header and a n of m pages format for the footer. Like so:  \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhf{} % clear all header and footer fields \fancyhead[C]{Name} \fancyfoot[C]{\footnotesize Page \thepage\ of \pageref{LastPage}}   By default, the fancy page style only affects the pages after the first page. I know I can set the first page to the fancy page style using \thispagestyle, but I only want the first page to use the footer, not the header. Is there a way to create a custom style that just the first page will use? I want to enable telnet on Windows 10.  I only see a telnet client but not a telnet server.  There is a web page telling me to open server manager and do a lot of stuff.  But, I don't have a server manager.  Please help!  I want to enable telnet. Pass C# ASP.NET array to Javascript array Choosing the best model from among different "best" models How do you choose a model from among different models chosen by different methods (e.g. backwards or forwards selection)?  Also what is a parsimonious model? Why is the voltage across a capacitor and the current across an inductor continuous? Dynamic trigger creation from managed package I have a requirement to create triggers dynamically after a managed package is installed. I have read that the tooling API can be used to create triggers dynamically however it cannot be used in production. Is it possible to create triggers from a managed package in an org? I want to be able to create the trigger based on some user inputs. A Tweedie distribution can model skewed data with a point mass at zero when the parameter $p$ (exponent in the mean-variance relationship) is between 1 and 2.   Similarly a zero-inflated (whether otherwise continuous or discrete) model may have a large number of zeros.  I'm having trouble understanding why it is that when I do prediction or calculate fitted values with these kinds of models, all of the predicted values are non-zero.  Can these models actually predict exact zeros?  For example  library(tweedie) library(statmod) # generate data y &lt;- rtweedie( 100, xi=1.3, mu=1, phi=1)  # xi=p x &lt;- y+rnorm( length(y), 0, 0.2) # estimate p out &lt;- tweedie.profile( y~1, p.vec=seq(1.1, 1.9, length=9)) # fit glm fit &lt;- glm( y ~ x, family=tweedie(var.power=out$p.max, link.power=0)) # predict pred &lt;- predict.glm(fit, newdata=data.frame(x=x), type="response")   pred now does not contain any zeros.  I thought the usefulness of models such as the Tweedie distribution comes from its ability to predict exact zeros and the continuous part.  I know that in my example the variable x is not very predictive. "There are a good many scholars ..." is it right? In "Seeing like a state" of James C.Scott there is a sentence at the beginning of a paragraph (Acknowledgements xi):     There are a good many scholars whose writings opened up new   perspectives for me or provided outstanding analyses of issues that I   could not have hoped to study so comprehensively on my own.   What worries me is a good many scholars. Is this some type of inversion or ancient English? Is this grammatically right? Why is a here? I thought that appropriate version would be There are many good scholars. Am I wrong? Calculating $\int_{|z|=2}\frac{e^{1/z^2}}{1-z}dz$ Find the value of $\displaystyle\int_{|z|=2}\frac{e^{1/z^2}}{1-z}dz$   The first idea I had was to apply Cauchy's integral formula. But can this be done? $e^{1/z^2}$ is not holomorphic on the interior of $|z|=2$. Still, if we would apply this we would obtain:  $\displaystyle\int_{|z|=2}\frac{e^{1/z^2}}{1-z}dz=-2\pi ie$.  Another way I think, is to apply the residue theorem. For $1-z$ has a simple zero at $z=1$ and $e^{1/1^2}\neq 0$, then the residue of $e^{1/z^2}/(1-z)$ at $z=0$ is $-e$. Again we obtain $2\pi iRes(g;0)=-2\pi ie$, where $g=\frac{e^{1/z^2}}{1-z}$.  But again, it seems to me this is not right because $g$ has two singularities, at $z=1$ and $z=0$. What we might do about $z=0$? The answer is not $-2\pi i e$? Does a car use friction to move? How can I merge properties of two JavaScript objects dynamically?