Consider Global Reputation Points I have come to enjoy the Stack Exchange community as a whole over the past few weeks. Originally, I started out seeking computer help from a couple of subcommunities where I could learn and get help with my computer problems. Itself  is a great idea and there are a few forums that offer similar help resources.  What makes Stack Exchange different is that it expands across so many arenas with a single account making it a very expansive place to give and take. For example, I found myself on the English Learning site where I actually have a lot to contribute. I am actually an English teacher but I have computer problems sometimes.  One thing though, the reputation points don't carry over across subcommunities which I think is a bit detrimental and defeating the purpose in a way.  My arguments are:   If the purpose of reputation points is to build a character reference, then shouldn't it be global? For instance, I can be helpful in one community and have a ton of reputation but a complete 'weirdo' in another. Whereas a universal point system wouldn't allow this. Reputation as a whole builds your identity across multiple communities. I join a new community and I am limited to what I can post (even if my post can be useful or helpful). Specifically, I ran across this during commenting. I had a perfectly viable comment to help a person but wasn't allowed because I didn't have reputation but I had reputation in another community. I had to post it as an answer and then I got 'moderated' by the community on where I should post and was down voted for leaving a comment in the answer area. Thus, losing reputation. It doesn't seem to create a way for incentives in some cases. For example, I have computer problems and I can't say I am phenominal at solving or answering computer questions. I could ask a question that may not get answered but if I have enough reputation I could put a bounty on it as incentive to get people to answer it. BUT WAIT!! I can't really earn reputation on a computer community to put a bounty on a question because there is nothing I can really answer or be helpful with.   However, I am great at writing, editing and dealing with international students!!! But, what is the sense of me just racking up points in a community when I will hardly need to ask a question much less put a bounty on it? Sure, points are great. It's nice to have a lot of points but what if I need them elsewhere?  So, when I need computer help desperately I can use my reputation collected from another community to put incentive in trying to get a question answered. Essentially, I'm a good guy and helpful at something but I am not a computer whiz.   Everyone is good at something and thats what the community at large should be in my opinion.  Just my opinion. I used my situation personally to explain but I am sure other people have experienced a similar situation or have had a similar thought.
Allow bounty to be set with reputation from another site? Here's one to get shot down: How about letting bounties to be set using the reputation gained through the use of another site? So, for instance, I'm a programmer with a high Stack Overflow rep who hates using computers. Wouldn't it be useful for me to be able to exchange some of my excess Stack Overflow credit to incentivise a question on Super User?   Or perhaps I'd like to highlight a question on Meta Stack Overflow, but I don't spend my time there.
Divisibility tests and remainder mod $9,11,99,101,999,1001\,$ (casting out nines and elevens) Now I have proved the following two problems:      (1) Prove that a number and the sum of its digits have the same remainder upon division by 9.    (2) Given an integer, consider the difference between the sum of the digits in odd positions (counting from the right) and those in even positions. Show that the difference has the same remainder as the number itself when divided by 11.    Then, I need help on the following problem:      Partition the digits of a number into groups of two and three, respectively, starting from the right. Treat these as two- and three-digit numbers, respectively, and proceed similarly as in the two problems above. What divisibility rules arise?    In fact, I did not quite get what this problem asks for and not clear about this process. Could anyone give me some hints on this, please?  Thanks in advance. You can post a link to an android market application by useing a link that looks like:     market://search?q=pname:package    While browsing the market, is it possible to find an app's package name? Or is there a convenient way to get or share a link to a market app? Is there any way to post a link to a market app that normal (non-android) browsers can make use of? When using the Profile Tool plugin I get a graph that looks like the 2nd derivative of what I want. That is, it looks like the rate of change of the slope of the elevation profile. I just want the elevation profile! The data is present for good 1' contour lines. Why is the Profile Tool interpreting the data in such a bizarre way? What am I missing? And what are the Min and Max units? What data type to use for hashed password field and what length? I'm not sure how password hashing works (will be implementing it later), but need to create database schema now.  I'm thinking of limiting passwords to 4-20 characters, but as I understand after encrypting hash string will be of different length.  So, how to store these passwords in the database? I am trying to sniff on a custom SPI-like bus protocol, which uses a unified bidirectional data line instead of separate MISO/MOSI. To make sense of the communication, I need to split it up into unidirectional lines before feeding them to my logic analyzer. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to see which device is responsible for which part of the signal. Since my devices won't talk to each other unless the protocol is carried out correctly, it's obvious that the bus splitting device has to be transparent to the actual agents communicating.  I tried to construct a bus splitting device, but failed as described . Since this question was maybe too specific and has not been answered, I want to ask more generally: Is there a bidirectional bus splitter that is able to split  into four wire SPI? Where could I buy such a device? (This seems similar to  question, only that I'm not talking about two really different protocols, so the answer does not apply). In principle only getting one direction would also suffice, since I could just subtract it from the full signal in order to retrieve the other half. And I'm also only interested in the master side of the communication.    The  seems to be a good candidate. Although it's advertised for use with I2C, it seems to be agnostic to the actual protocol on the lines. (As it does not even differentiate between DATA and CLOCK line for I2C.)     Splits I2C-bus signal into pairs of forward/reverse Tx/Rx, Ty/Ry signals for interface with opto-electrical isolators and similar devices that need unidirectional input and output signal paths.   As my devices operate on SPI mode 3 (polarity 1, idling on HIGH), the implementation of the receive pin should work:        sense the voltage state of the I2C-bus pin Sx (or Sy) and transmit this state to the pinTx (Ty respectively), and   sense the state of the pin Rx (Ry) and pull the I2C-bus pin LOW whenever Rx (Ry) is LOW.      But I am still puzzled on how this would actually work in sniffing this bidirectional bus. I could connect one device with the I2C line and grab its MOSI at Tx and MISO at Rx, but I would eventually have to connect both lines before feeding it to the other device, therefore making it impossible to separate the signals at my logic analyzer again. How can I connect the Tx/Rx for the slave while still being able to read them separately with a third device?  Edit: I now think this is actually not helping at all, since it leaves me with the same splitting issue as with out the device. I already have separate master and slave lines, I just don't know how to join them while still retrieving the separate directions.    I also stumbled upon the . It seems like this is a device designed for sniffing on buses, but I don't think it can help me in my case. Is there a mode where I can use it as a bridge on a bidirectional line and grab unidirectional signals off of it simultaneously?    Edit: I found this  which seems related to the issue. This does supposedly split the bidirectional line to feed it to two unidirectional isolators. The question is: Does this work for my setup? It describes the I2C lines being open-drain, whereas my lines are open-collector and also I'm not entirely sure if I could just leave out the isolator part and grab the signals from the lines or if these would have to be also hooked up to some transistor or be pulled high. Using Windows 10 in a virtual machine. Can it be done? I am currently running 8.1. I'd like to try out Windows 10 and if I like it upgrade. If not, I'll keep running as I am.   I've never used a virtual machine before: can Window 10 be used from a virtual machine as a "sandbox", and if so how? Do I need a Schengen visa if I have UK permanent residency? Subspaces of separable normed spaces Let $X$ be a separable normed space. Is it true that every subspace is separable? If it was Hilbert space I would take the dense set and then their projections.  It sounds trivial but I cannot prove or disprove it...  Thank you. What is the difference between select count(*) and select count(any_non_null_column)? I seem to remember that (on Oracle) there is a difference between uttering select count(*) from any_table and select count(any_non_null_column) from any_table.  What are the differences between these two statements, if any? Controls in container form come over child form? What lens characteristics are important in star photography? I have a hard time formulating proofs.  For this problem, I  can see that if $n$ is equal to $8,$ this statement is true.  $(\mathbb{Z}/8\mathbb{Z})^{\times}$ includes elements:  $1,3,5,7$, and all of these are roots of $1-x^2 \pmod 8.$  And obviously $8$ divides $24.$  But how do I prove this without depending on number calculations and only using theorems?  Help Please?  I need a step by step walk through of how to do this proof and what theorems would be appropriate to use. Why do my lamps require an insane "strength" value of 1 million? recently, I was using mesh planes to emit some light, and they had a strength of 8.0.. this worked well now, I want to swap these out for area lamps (to improve performance) i've positioned these area lamps in the place of my emitter polygons i've scaled them such they have 1.0 transform scale, and in the lamp settings, I set the size to 1m across (to size-match the previous emitters) the problem is, the lamps require a crazy "strength" of at least 1 000 000 (one million!) to produce any reasonable amount of light... this seems bonkers! point lamps, area lamps, and the others, are all effected my scene is scaled using the Centimeters preset.. the foreground is only a meter a way, and the more distant background is more like 5 meters back i've paid special attention to the sizing and scaling of this scene, I can't figure out why the mesh emitters are working with a sane Strength of 8, and the lamps require something out of this world? something must not be right...     Edit: Remastered scene corrects scales, problem persists       i've remastered the scene so that all of the objects have a proper scale factor of 1.0 this should correct any sizing discrepancy/confusion my scene must be in centimeters preset, all my other work is in centimeters the area lamp size is now definitely 1m, as highlighted in the above screenshot (and it is not affected by the 1.0 transform scaling factor, also highlighted (I also verified the delta scale is also 1.0)) despite correcting the scaling of my scene, strength 1 000 000 is still required is blender simply not accounting for my scene's Unit Scale setting? Can “zealot” have a positive connotation? A zealot is a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or other ideals.  I have never seen this word used with positive connotation, but could it (without causing raised eyebrows)? For example, “Gandhi was a zealot and should be admired by all who believe in non-violence.”  Also, do “zealous” and “zeal” carry the same connotation as “zealot”? In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Nearly-Headless Nick and some other ghosts can visit the Hogwarts students, but why can't other deceased people - such as Harry's parents? How is light emitted by an incandescent lamp How long does it usually take for published articles to show up on Google Scholar? The title pretty much says it all - what's the typical delay with which Google Scholar indexes newly published articles? (Note I'm not talking about citations, but about the article showing up at all.)  Edit: the article in question went for over six months after being published (in a well-regarded Springer journal with its own Wikipedia page) without appearing on Google Scholar, until it received a citation, at which point it was added to Google Scholar almost immediately. One more motivation to write papers that get cited. :)  Edit 2: Another article in an even more mainstream journal took a little over seven weeks. Proving the sum of two independent Cauchy Random Variables is Cauchy How can I safely create a nested directory in Python? What is the most elegant way to check if the directory a file is going to be written to exists, and if not, create the directory using Python? Here is what I tried:  import os  file_path = "/my/directory/filename.txt" directory = os.path.dirname(file_path)  try:     os.stat(directory) except:     os.mkdir(directory)         f = file(filename)   Somehow, I missed os.path.exists (thanks kanja, Blair, and Douglas). This is what I have now:  def ensure_dir(file_path):     directory = os.path.dirname(file_path)     if not os.path.exists(directory):         os.makedirs(directory)   Is there a flag for "open", that makes this happen automatically? Editing Subject in new Gmail For , the answer given on 7 Feb about how to edit the subject line in the new format of Gmail does not work for me.   There is no box on the left with a down arrow to options to reply, forward or edit subject in my version. There is a book on the right offering options to    Reply Reply to all Forward Filter message Print Delete Report spam Report phising Show original Message text garbled Translate message Mark answered    But, no option to edit subject