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Removing the first line of CSV file Warning: mysql_fetch_* expects parameter 1 to be resource, boolean given error What is the mysterious stranger doing in my vault? Quick easy way to migrate SQLite3 to MySQL? Why was my "shopping list" question closed? My question was closed for being a "shopping list question", even though it was very much related to the topic of the site. Why? Investment options for f1 visa students in USA I am foreign graduate student in USA. I recently completed my undergrad (from USA) and have a bit of money saved up. I know that F1 students cannot work off campus and other business activities such stock trading etc are prohibited as well. I wanted to know if opening an account in an investment management firm like Charles Schwabb or Betterment is allowed. I would not be working but I will still be earning a small interest on my deposits. If that is not allowed, are there any good and legal ways for foreign students to earn a little interest on savings? How can I have a "Dear %firstname%" template in my Gmail? It seems to be a very easy thing but I am struggling to see how. I need a "Dear %firstname%,  [cursor here] Kind Regards etc" template in my Gmail account, so every time I click reply, it is already there. How can I do that? On which Stack Exchange site can I ask questions like        When will [some new feature] for [some product] be released?   Where can I download an update for [some product]?   I'm getting errors when accessing the customer portal for [some company] – how can I fix this?   Why was I banned for doing [some action] on [some platform]?   Why is [some company] discontinuing [some product]?   Why is [some company] giving away [some product] for free?   What's the price for [some product]?      or any other product support/customer service questions?  It's not a product related to programming (or I've read  on Meta Stack Overflow) so I know Stack Overflow isn't the right place. Which other site in the network will take these kind of questions? How do I pass data between Activities in Android application? Using a non-centralized structure for tex files - similar to \graphicspath I would like to show that   $$ \int_{0}^{1} \frac{x-1}{\ln(x)} \mathrm dx=\ln2 $$  What annoys me is that $ x-1 $ is the numerator so the geometric power series is useless.  Any idea? Why aren't these loops homotopic? Let $S^1 = \{z \in \mathbb{C} : |z| = 1\}$.  Take the loops $f,g : [0,1] \rightarrow S^1$, $f(t) = 1$, $g(t) = e^{2\pi it}$.  I know these represent different elements in $\pi_1(S^1, 1)$, but I don't see why $F(t,s) = e^{2\pi its}$ isn't a homotopy between $f$ and $g$. I'm training a neural network and the training loss decreases, but the validation loss doesn't, or it decreases much less than what I would expect, based on references or experiments with very similar architectures and data. How can I fix this?    As for question        to which this question is inspired, the question is intentionally left general so that other questions about how to reduce the generalization error of a neural network down to a level which has been proved to be attainable, can be closed as duplicates of this one.  See also dedicated thread on Meta: Conveying "under the radar" in a less colloquial way When should I fudge dice rolls? When I started my first D&amp;D campaign as a DM, I accidentally rolled and confirmed a crit on a PC from a goblin. It was an instant kill as our campaign had no cleric. That time I decided to fudge the dice. Now, there's a similar problem, but this time the PCs are at 3rd level and they are dealing with a very important NPC. If they fail this one diplomacy check, the entire game world will fall apart, as the king would then send his entire army against the PC's homeland and will destroy it, plunging my entire game world into chaos, at which time drow that I wanted to save for a later adventure will have to come out, which will instigate a wizard's guild to release their secret ultra-deadly virus, and everything in my game world, including the PCs, will die. So should I fudge the dice roll? When is it good to fudge it? How to get the client IP address in PHP Energy conservation and interference I have a problem with energy conservation in case of interfering waves.  Imagine two harmonic waves with amplitudes $A$. They both carry energy that is proportional to $A^2$, so the total energy is proportional to $2A^2$. When they interfere, the amplitude raises to $2A$, so energy is now proportional to $4A^2$ and bigger than before.  The equivalent question is what happens to the energy with the superposition of two waves that interfere destructively.  Also, if someone could comment on the statement about this problem in my physics book (Bykow, Butikow, Kondratiew):      The sources of the waves work with increased power during the interference because they feel the wave from the other source. The age of the universe Many times I have read statements like, "the age of the universe is 14 billion years" . For example this wikipedia page .   Now, my question is, which observers' are these time intervals? According to whom 14 billion years? Make all new files in a directory accessible to a group Suppose I have two users Alice and Bob and a group GROUPNAME and a folder foo, both users are members of GROUPNAME (using Linux and ext3).   If I save as user Alice a file under foo, the permissions are: -rw-r--r-- Alice Alice. However, is it possible to achieve that every file saved under some subdirectory of foo has permissions -rwxrwx--- Alice GROUPNAME (i.e. owner Alice, group GROUPNAME)? Upgraded to 13.10 now clock settings are all disabled and clock does not display I've upgraded to 13.10 and now I don't have the standard menu clock, which I need for work.  I checked and 'indicator-datetime' is installed.  I even uninstalled/reinstalled that applet with no luck.  Also my "clock" settings under System Preferences are all disabled.  I can't change anything.  Does anyone know how I can get the old menu clock back?  Alternatively is there another menu clock app I can download?  Edit 1  Thanks for the responses    I've restarted several times and that didn't fix the issue. I just ran the 13.10 update today.  But I ran it again a few minutes ago.  I got   about 200KB in random updates.  The issue is still present after a reboot. # apt-cache policy indicator-datetime indicator-datetime: Installed: 13.10.0+13.10.20131016.2-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 13.10.0+13.10.20131016.2-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 13.10.0+13.10.20131016.2-0ubuntu1 0     500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages     100 /var/lib/dpkg/status   Edit 2  I believe the issue is related to 'rarings' changing the systray somehow...   Or , although I haven't got that solution to work yet.  Edit 3  Because of a suggestion from RolandiXor I've check the binaries.  My system is missing 'libical.so.0' but it has 'libical.so.1'.    ldd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-datetime-service libical.so.0 =&gt; not found   Does anyone know how to get the libical.so.0 binary that the datetime service needs but doesn't install?