what happens and what should happen when an asker accepts a wrong answer? In , they answer accepted by the asker, as been commented by multiple people, as not being neither standard, nor the recommended method.   What should be done in order to correct that ? (The asker seem to have been inactive for nearly the last 10 years)  Obviously, this is not a duplicate of «». I don't care about the why. What I'm looking for is a way to solve the problem.  Here we have a situation where  : 1/ It has been documented by multiple users, why the answer should not be the accepted one. It works, but the standards do not accept it as the recommended way of doing. And 2/ Since it is tagged as being the accepted answer, it receives supplementary likes from people which are glad with the first solution they find and won't even check comments or other answers  It is quite obvious than normal users won't be able to do it and that it requires help from someone with administrative rights. My question is about how we do that.
What should happen to questions asked by non-existent users with answers that score higher than the accepted answer? Here's the scenario:  Bob asks a question on Stack Overflow. Bob gets a few answers and selects the one that helps him the most. Bob's account gets deleted. Another (considerably better) answer is posted to Bob's question. The new answer soon scores higher than the accepted answer.  There is no way for Bob (or anyone) to change the accepted answer on the question. However, it's still the first thing everybody sees when they visit the question (despite the fact that there is a better answer further down). Now I can almost hear somebody asking the question, &quot;but how often does this really happen?&quot; I'm glad you asked. I just spent the last hour or so constructing a Data.SE query to answer exactly that:    The results? 3,177 rows. Naturally, I am wondering if there is anything that can be done about this. The following options immediately come to my mind:  Change the accepted answer. This option is here for completeness. I doubt anyone here (including me) actually would consider it. The accepted answer was selected by the user and changing it does not make sense.  Change the sorting order. This makes much more sense. Note that I am not advocating that we always change the sorting order whenever an answer outscores the accepted answer. I am only advocating that this happen when the OP's account has been deleted.  Remove the checkmark from the accepted answer. This option was suggested by Robert Harvey and I actually think it's a viable option as well. After all, the OP is no longer around, so I don't see much value in indicating which answer helped him the most.   Any thoughts? (Also, I'm not an SQL expert, so if you have suggestions for improving the query, feel free to point them out.)
Is $R^2$ useful or dangerous? I was skimming through  by Cosma Shalizi (in particular, section 2.1.1 of the ), and was reminded that you can get very low $R^2$ even when you have a completely linear model.  To paraphrase Shalizi's example: suppose you have a model $Y = aX + \epsilon$, where $a$ is known. Then $\newcommand{\Var}{\mathrm{Var}}\Var[Y] = a^2 \Var[x] + \Var[\epsilon]$ and the amount of explained variance is $a^2 \Var[X]$, so $R^2 = \frac{a^2 \Var[x]}{a^2 \Var[X] + \Var[\epsilon]}$. This goes to 0 as $\Var[X] \rightarrow 0$ and to 1 as $\Var[X] \rightarrow \infty$.  Conversely, you can get high $R^2$ even when your model is noticeably non-linear. (Anyone have a good example offhand?)  So when is $R^2$ a useful statistic, and when should it be ignored? A word for "mercy killing" "Mercy killing" is an act of killing someone who is already dying and in terrible pain, in order to reduce his or her suffering.    Is there any single word for "mercy killing"? I have these two CREATE TABLE statements:   CREATE TABLE GUEST (   id int(15) not null auto_increment PRIMARY KEY,   GuestName char(25) not null );  CREATE TABLE PAYMENT (   id int(15) not null auto_increment   Foreign Key(id) references GUEST(id),   BillNr int(15) not null );   What is the problem in the second statement? It did not create a new table. Any suggestions for a good undergraduate introductory textbook to statistics? I am hoping you can give me some suggestions. I am teaching in a very diverse (made of minority groups) college and the students are mostly Psychology majors. Most students are fresh from high school but some of them are older returning students above 40. Most of the students have motivational problems and aversion to math. But I am still looking for a book that covers the basic curriculum: from descriptive to sampling and testing all the way to ANOVA, and all in the context of experimental methods. The department requires me to use SPSS in class, but I like the idea of building the analysis in a spreadsheet such as excel.  p.s. the other teachers use a book that I don't like because of the extensive reliance on computational formulae. I find using these computational formulas - rather than the more intuitive and computationally intensive formula that is consistent with the rational and basic algorithm- unintuitive, unnecessary and confusing. This is the book I refer to Essentials of Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, 7th Edition Frederick J Gravetter State University of New York, Brockport Larry B. Wallnau State University of New York, Brockport ISBN-10: 049581220X Thank you for reading! How to run an executable on boot and keep it running? I have an executable build from a ndk-build program. I want to run it on a rooted Android device. How much is the possibility that Android will kill my executable?  Using adb shell, I am able to execute my executable using following commands:  adb push executable /sdcard adb shell device:/ $ su device:/ # cd /system device:/system # mount -o rw,remount /system device:/system # mv /sdcard/executable . device:/system # ./executable   My requirement is to run this executable on device boot.  I have tried following:   Write ./executable in init.rc.   On reboot init.rc reset to its original contents. I figured out that Magisk done this.  Write commands in /system/etc/init/bootstat.rc   ./executable service custom /system/executable on boot  ./system/dhandler/diag_revealer    None of the above thing is working. Is for open connected $U$ the set $U_\varepsilon$ for small $\varepsilon$ connected? Let for an open connected subset $U\subset \mathbb R^n$ and a number $\varepsilon &gt;0$: $$ U_\varepsilon=\{x\in U: dist (x, \partial U)&gt; \varepsilon \}. $$ Then  $U_\varepsilon$ is open but in general not connected.  But I suppose that for sufficiently small $\varepsilon &gt;0$ also  $U_\varepsilon$ is connected. How to prove its?  Edit. Let's assume that additionally $U$ is bounded. Is then $U_\varepsilon$ connected? There are Recurrent Neural Networks and Recursive Neural Networks. Both are usually denoted by the same acronym: RNN. According to , Recurrent NN are in fact Recursive NN, but I don't really understand the explanation.  Moreover, I don't seem to find which is better (with examples or so) for Natural Language Processing. The fact is that, although Socher uses Recursive NN for NLP in his , I can't find a good implementation of recursive neural networks, and when I search in Google, most of the answers are about Recurrent NN.  Besides that, is there another DNN which applies better for NLP, or it depends on the NLP task? Deep Belief Nets or Stacked Autoencoders? (I don't seem to find any particular util for ConvNets in NLP, and most of the implementations are with machine vision in mind).  Finally, I would really prefer DNN implementations for C++ (better yet if it has GPU support) or Scala (better if it has Spark support) rather than Python or Matlab/Octave.  I've tried Deeplearning4j, but it's under constant development and the documentation is a little outdated and I can't seem to make it work. Too bad because it has the "black box" like way of doing things, very much like scikit-learn or Weka, which is what I really want. Stack Exchange iOS app crashes on start Upon clicking on SE icon, blue (starting) screen appears and then I am back to home screen, SE app simply won't start. This kind of behaviour never happened before (on any other app). I tried to remove it from &quot;task manager&quot;, reinstalling and logging back in; neither did work. In Settings -&gt; Stack Exchange -&gt; Notices I found a log message:  FILE DOESN'T EXIST, WILL CREATE: users/dev/buildagent/work/{id}/pods/target support files/pods/pods-ack...plist   App Version: 1.4.0 Device: iPhone7,2 OS Version: Version 9.1 (Build 13B143)   TLDR: app starts when cellphone has no internet access. I just noticed when I am on 3G (cellular internet) it crashes ASAP, but when I am on wifi that has no internet (for LAN etc.) app starts normally but no new content, when I turn off WiFi and iPhone switches to cellular; app crashes. Note: I turn off WiFi using control center - so I never leave the app. Another thing, when I force iPhone to use EDGE (slowest possible internet) app starts, and crashes after 5 seconds or so. I assume when app downloads some data from server.  Known workaround (works for me too)  I found a workaround: turn on Airplane Mode, launch the app, then turn Airplane Mode off. – NobodyNada I've got a custom loop that I'm using to display some Real Estate listings that will be available within 60 days. I'm calling it with the following function:   &lt;?php  $sixtydays = date('Y/m/d', strtotime('+60 days')); $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; $query = new PostsOrderedByMetaQuery(array(   'post_type' =&gt; array('post', 'real-estate'),   'meta_key' =&gt; 'Time Available',   'meta_compare' =&gt; '&lt;=',   'meta_value' =&gt; $sixtydays,   'paged' =&gt; $paged,   'orderby_meta_key' =&gt; 'Price',   'orderby_order'    =&gt; 'ASC' )); ?&gt; &lt;?php while ($query-&gt;have_posts()) : $query-&gt;the_post(); ?&gt;   While the loop works great, I can't get it to paginate. It shows the first 10 (my default) posts but doesn't show the pagination. The only way to display all posts is to show them on one page by adding 'posts_per_page' =&gt; -1, I have similar loops on other pages that have no problem paginating. The only difference with this one is that there are two meta keys that are filtering the posts.   I'm using WP Page Navi for this and the rest of my pages. I'm closing the loop and adding the pagination using the following code:   &lt;?php endwhile; // End the loop. Whew. ?&gt; &lt;?php wp_pagenavi(); ?&gt; &lt;?php wp_reset_query(); ?&gt;   How can I go about fixing this? I accidentally closed it without voting, how can I find it? When I suggest declaring war on the target it says there's already a proposition to do so. Is there a power saving application similar to Jupiter? Changing order of features in shapefile What is the possessive of "you guys"? What is the result of $\infty - \infty$? I would say $\infty - \infty=0$ because even though $\infty$ is an undetermined number, $\infty = \infty$. So $\infty-\infty=0$. I'm looking for the method by which the partial derangement formula $D_{n,k}$ was derived. I can determine the values for small values of N empirically, but how the general case formula arose still alludes me.  Any links/books or an explanation will be appreciated.  The formula is:  $D_{n,k} = {n \choose k}!(n-k)$  Links: Limit of a decreasing sequence of measurable sets. Let $(X,\mathcal{A})$ be a measurable space, with measure $\mu$. Let $\{E_n\}_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \subseteq \mathcal{A}$ be a sequence of measurable sets, with $E_{n+1} \subseteq E_n, \ \forall n \in \mathbb{N}$, that is a decreasing sequence, and $\mu(E_n)=+ \infty, \ \forall n \in \mathbb{N}$. Let $E=\bigcap_{n \in \mathbb{N}} E_n$ the limit set of the sequence, $E$ is measurable for definition. Is true that $\mu(E)=+\infty$? If not in all cases, is true with $X=\mathbb{R}^{N}$, $\mathcal{A}$ the collection of Lebesgue-measurable sets, and $\mu$ the Lebesgue measure on $\mathbb{R}^N$? I'm having trouble with the OpenLayers Plugin of Qgis and the map composer:  If I create an OSM-background layer and if I want to export this, the OSM-Layer looks perfectly all right in the normal qgis program window. But in the map composer and after export the layer has shifted relatively to my other shape layers (EPSG:32633 - WGS 84 / UTM zone 33N).  The second thing is that the output resolution of the exported osm-layer is very, very poor.   A really bad way of getting around this whole trouble would be to increase the screen resolution and make a screenshot of the map composition window of qgis. But I don't think this would be very professional. It also would cause a lot of pain :)   I'm using Qgis 1.8.0-Lisboa under Linux. The openlayers plugin is version 0.92. Postgres: Reclaiming Space I am a non-EU national, permanent UK Resident. Recently, my work issued me with a multiple Schengen visa with Norway as the first (main) point of entry. Now I want to go on holidays to Greece - do I need to apply to Schengen visa again, as Greece is not Norway and I am not going there for work? How to apply for a Schengen visa when the travel dates are uncertain My husband has a Chinese passport and I am a U.S. citizen; I don't need a visa to travel to Schengen countries. I am helping him to apply for a visa.  Our plans are to go to Paris, Italy and Spain, but we haven't nailed down definite dates; the approximate dates are August 18 to September 11. We made an appointment with Spain consulate to apply for the visa. We need to show air flight reservations, I could book it online without any problems.    Since we don't have definite dates, what dates should he put down on the application?  I know that, once they approve you, they give you 90 days, so does it matter what dates I put down on the visa application?   Our appointment at the Spanish Consulate is in a few days.