How to validate if object is of type XML
is there a better way to do this XML scraping task in R?
Why can't I sort questions by "votes" or "unanswered" without logging in? On the "Questions" page of each Stack Exchange site, there are links at the top to sort the questions by "newest", "frequent", "votes", "active", and "unanswered".  At least that is what it looks like if I am logged in. If I am on a site that I don't have an account for, or if I am not logged in, the only one I see is "newest".  This seems to have been done recently. I could swear I saw the other links, even when I was not logged in, until a few weeks ago, or maybe later than that.  Why was this change made? TikZ/PGF 3.0 datavisualization vs pgfplots To follow-up on a previous question , the current release of TikZ 3.0 has a flexible datavisualization engine that creates the same kind of plots as the more mature plotting package pgfplots.  What is the current recommendation for producing complete plots in LaTeX? Our production server (2012, VM + SAN) has 32 GB of RAM, the database size is ~80GB. The application uses TempDB heavily - disk is hit ~100 MBps both reads &amp; writes.  Seeing tons of SQL compilations/sec .. 95% of all batch requests are compilations.  Ideally would like to increase the RAM to 64GB or 128GB, but need to 'prove' to team that it's required.  Buffer Cache Hit Ratio (BCHR) is 99.9%, but Page Life Expectancy (PLE) is only ~400. What's the explanation for this ? I though PLE &amp; BCHR had a linear relationship (i.e. they increase or decrease together)  On other VMs with larger databases and lot more RAM, both BCHR &amp; PLE are high.  Current wait stats and perf counters Powershell Rename Multiple Files with LastWriteTime Prefix I am trying to put together a Powershell script that will:  -Search recursively from a root directory -Exclude files with existing "yyyyMMdd " file name prefix -Rename the files not excluded above with ""yyyyMMdd " file name prefix based on their specific LastWriteTime  Note: ideally, this script should include all file type extensions  I have tried myself, but it would seem to be above my head, as my attempts are not going well.  Thanks, in advance.    #StampMe.ps1 param( [string] $fileName)  # Check the file exists if (-not(Test-Path $fileName)) {break}  # Display the original name "Original filename: $fileName"  $fileObj = get-item $fileName  # Get the date $DateStamp = get-date -uformat "%Y-%m-%d@%H-%M-%S"  $extOnly = $fileObj.extension  if ($extOnly.length -eq 0) {    $nameOnly = $fileObj.Name    rename-item "$fileObj" "$nameOnly-$DateStamp"    } else {    $nameOnly = $fileObj.Name.Replace( $fileObj.Extension,'')    rename-item "$fileName" "$nameOnly-$DateStamp$extOnly"    }  # Display the new name "New filename: $nameOnly-$DateStamp$extOnly"   I am hoping to change the line:  $DateStamp = get-date -uformat "%Y-%m-%d@%H-%M-%S"   To be LastWriteTime instead of get-date, but I have no idea how to make this happen.  This code (from another Super User question):  Get-ChildItem "Test.pdf" | Rename-Item -newname {$_.LastWriteTime.toString("yyyyMMdd") + " Test.pdf"}   ...successfully renames a single file, but I can't seem to integrate this into the larger script.    With regards to running the above recursively, I have tried this (also from ):  foreach ($file in get-ChildItem *.* -recurse) { ./StampMe.ps1 $file.name }   Which succeeds to apply the PS script to files in the root directory, but fails to apply to any files in the sub-folder tree that propagates from the root directory. I know there are many ways to prevent image caching (such as via META tags), as well as a few nice tricks to ensure that the current version of an image is shown with every page load (such as image.jpg?x=timestamp), but is there any way to actually clear or replace an image in the browsers cache so that neither of the methods above are necessary?  As an example, lets say there are 100 images on a page and that these images are named "01.jpg", "02.jpg", "03.jpg", etc. If image "42.jpg" is replaced, is there any way to replace it in the cache so that "42.jpg" will automatically display the new image on successive page loads? I can't use the META tag method, because I need everuthing that ISN"T replaced to remain cached, and I can't use the timestamp method, because I don't want ALL of the images to be reloaded every time the page loads.  I've racked my brain and scoured the Internet for a way to do this (preferrably via javascript), but no luck. Any suggestions? Find the minimum of $\sqrt{(x+1)^2+(y-1)^2}+\sqrt{(x+2)^2+(y+2)^2}+\sqrt{(x-1)^2+(y+1)^2}$ For real $x,y$ Find the minimum of $\sqrt{(x+1)^2+(y-1)^2}+\sqrt{(x+2)^2+(y+2)^2}+\sqrt{(x-1)^2+(y+1)^2}$ For real $x,y$. It is the distance of a point in a triangle from its vertexes which gives the minimum when $(x,y)$ is on the Fermat's point.  But now I am stuck in finding the location of Fermat's point.  $(1) \quad 4$ $(2) \quad 5$ $(3) \quad \sqrt{3}+2\sqrt{5}$ $(4) \quad 4\sqrt{2}$ Do there Exist Proper Classes that aren't "Too Big" Some proper classes are "too big" to be a set in the sense that they have a subclass that can be put in bijection with $\alpha$ for every cardinal $\alpha$. It is implied in  post that every proper class is "too big" to be a set in this sense, however I have been unable to prove it. It's true if every two proper classes are in bijection, but it's consistent with ZFC for there to be a pair of non-bijective classes.  So, is the following true in ZFC:     For all proper classes, $C$, and $\alpha\in\mathbf{Card}$, $\exists S\subset C$ such that $|S|=\alpha$?   If not, is there something reasonable similar that preserves the intuition about classes that are "too big to be sets"? Intersection of the $p$-sylow and $q$-sylow subgroups of group $G$ What I'm trying to understand is, to what degree does the status/rank of the University (where one completes his/her Ph.D) matter while shaping his/her career after graduation? I would like to know the weight given to one's school in both the following cases:   While applying for post-docs/faculty positions in academia While applying to industrial research labs   For instance, I've read on some forums (I can't locate the link now) that while considering prospective applications for tenure-track faculty positions, very few Universities accept a candidate who has completed his/her Ph.D from a lower ranked school having a lesser "brand" value, irrespective of the fact whether he/she has published equally original work as his/her counterpart from an Ivy league college. How much truth is in this statement? It would be really great if someone already in academia, either as a newly-accepted faculty or someone on the Faculty Hiring committee could share their experiences/statistics on this regard. I'm simply interested to know the answer, without commenting at all on whether such a practice is justifiable.  Similarly, what about recruitment to internationally acclaimed research labs (like  or ) - what importance do they place on the pedigree of a candidate's college, before taking into consideration what they published ?  I'm personally interested in answers related to the field of Computer Science (theory), but the question is applicable to any prospective grad student in any discipline in my opinion. Feel free to share your personal experiences post-Ph.D in detail, as that would give me (and future viewers of this question) about what its like to carve a career once you are out of school! How do I uninstall Windows 8 and install Windows 7? I have a friend, who just got a new Toshiba Satellite C series with Windows 8. I tried to uninstall Windows 8 and install Windows 7 but was unable to do so.  I did everything I could:   Boot disk - would not load (error message Media -- Fail) Boot USB - would not load (error message Media -- Fail) Loading Windows 7 disk from system, fails with different errors   Does anybody know what I can do in order to install Windows 7? Access denied for user 'root@localhost' (using password:NO) There are many cards that can put multiple permanents onto the battlefield simultaneously, such as , , or .  How do these interact with the following types of abilities?  As [this permanent] enters the battlefield... You may have [this permanent] enter the battlefield as... [This permanent] enters the battlefield with... When [a permanent with certain characteristics] enters the battlefield...   Justification There have been many questions already about particular instances of this situation.  This question is intended to be a canonical question and answer to all questions such as:      Note to moderators: three of these five questions have already been marked as duplicates pointing to this one.  Can we do the same for the remaining two? Number Theory: Prove that $m | \phi(a^m - 1)$ How to change the shadow color in Blender Cycles? Moderncv package - cventry date width Parenthesis in expr arithmetic: 3 * (2 + 1) Continued fraction of $e^{-2\pi n}$ I found this problem on a well-known problem solving website. It is apparently from Ramanujan.     With   $$\LARGE{a = \frac{1}{1 + \frac{e^{-2\pi}}{1 + \frac{e^{-4\pi}}{1 + \ddots}}}},$$   what is $a$?   The basic methods I know for questions of this type were not helpful to me.  I do not require a full solution, but feel free to post one if you would like. Hints or lecture notes on how to solve problems of this nature would be appreciated.   Keep in mind that I am at an undergraduate level in mathematics. Why would a static nested interface be used in Java? Trying to attach a file from SD Card to email I am trying to launch an Intent to send an email. All of that works, but when I try to actually send the email a couple 'weird' things happen.  here is code   Intent sendIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND); sendIntent.setType("image/jpeg"); sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "Photo"); sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_STREAM, Uri.parse("file://sdcard/dcim/Camera/filename.jpg")); sendIntent.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, "Enjoy the photo"); startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sendIntent, "Email:"));   So if I launch using the Gmail menu context It shows the attachment, lets me type who the email is to, and edit the body &amp; subject. No big deal. I hit send, and it sends. The only thing is the attachment does NOT get sent.  So. I figured, why not try it w/ the Email menu context (for my backup email account on my phone). It shows the attachment, but no text at all in the body or subject. When I send it, the attachment sends correctly. That would lead me to believe something is quite wrong. Do I need a new permission in the Manifest launch an intent to send email w/ attachment? What am I doing wrong? Is it logically correct to assert that the expectation of the momentum $$\langle \hat p \rangle=0$$ for any bound state because it is bound to some finite region? What is the physical interpretation of the fact that $$\langle \hat p \rangle=0$$ in an energy eigenstate $\psi_n(x,t)$  but $$\langle \hat p \rangle\neq0$$ in some superposition state $$\psi(x,t)=c_m\psi_m(x,t)+c_n\psi_n(x,t)~?$$ Here $\psi_n(x,t)$ the eigenstates of the Hamiltonian, for example, in the problem of particle in a box (say).