Strange behaviour of Scanner class
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Meta Stack Exchange should not penalize downvotes I have read enough threads on QQplots here to understand that a QQplot can be more informative than other normality tests. However, I am inexperienced with interpreting QQplots. I googled a lot; I found a lot of graphs of non-normal QQplots, but no clear rules on how to interpret them, other than what it seems to be comparison with know distributions plus "gut feeling".   I would like to know if you have (or you know of) any rule of thumb to help you decide for non-normality.  This question came up when I saw these two graphs:    I understand that the decision of non-normality depends on the data and what I want to do with them; however, my question is: generally, when do the observed departures from the straight line constitute enough evidence to make unreasonable the approximation of normality?  For what it's worth, the Shapiro-Wilk test failed to reject the hypothesis of non-normality in both cases. Do redirection operators always open file descriptors in parallel? 1. Consider snippet#1:  $ cat test.txt &gt; test.txt cat: test.txt: input file is output file   It seems that cat makes its input file descriptor point to test.txt and then when it tries to set its output file descriptor to test.txt it throws the above error. Here it seems that cat is aware of the redirect operator and so proceeds to attempt to set the output file descriptor to test.txt  2. Consider snippet#2:  $ cat 1.txt 1:CAT 2:dog $ sed 's/cat/CAT/g' test.txt 1:CAT 2:dog $ sed 's/cat/CAT/g' test.txt &gt; test.txt $ cat test.txt # Note that test.txt is now empty $   Here we see that sed opens test.txt (last argument) in read mode and at the same time sets test.txt as its file output descriptor. Also the '&gt;' operator overwrites the contents of the file BEFORE sed starts to read from it.   I am aware that commands in a pipeline execute in parallel but have not come across any info on how redirection operators behave. Any supporting links would be helpful. Evaluating a PDF to find an unkown constant Evaluate the PDF to find K  $1 = \int_0^{\infty} \frac{k}{(1+x)^4}$  using u substitution I got:  $u=1+x$ and $du= dx$  $\int_0^{\infty} \frac{k}{u^4} \to \frac{k}{\frac{-1}{3} u^3}$   Since $u^4 du = \frac{u^{-4+1}}{-4+1}=$ $\frac{u^{-3}}{-3}$  which evaluating gives:  $1=\frac{k}{\frac{-1}{3(1+x)^3}} \vert_0^{\infty} \to \frac{-3k}{(1+x)^3} \vert_0^{\infty} = 0 -3k$   and $k= \frac{-1}{3}$  somehow though they came up with $\frac{-k}{3} \frac{1}{(1+x)^3}$ after integrating $\int_0^{\infty} \frac{k}{(1+x)^3}$   Was my approach correct to use substitution? Where does my work go wrong? Bounds for $n$-th prime In  I have found that the bounds for $n$-th prime is given by, $$n(\ln n+\ln \ln n)&gt;p_n&gt;n(\ln n+\ln \ln n-1)$$ for all $n\ge6$. Are there even stronger bounds for the $n$-th prime?   If possible (of course if the answer is affirmative) in the answer (or comment) please give the link of the paper in which it first appears. Can a magus with a high BAB cast two spells or attack and cast, with their full attack action? Suppose you are a level 10 Magus or something similar. (Something with a decent BAB progression and spellcasting abilities) When you hit +6/+1, can you cast a spell, then attack, vice-versa, or simply case two spells? Everywhere I look I can't get a clear answer. Why do most C programmers name variables like this:  int *myVariable;   rather than like this:  int* myVariable;   Both are valid. It seems to me that the asterisk is a part of the type, not a part of the variable name. Can anyone explain this logic? Order of elements is lcm-closed in abelian groups How can I prove that if $G$ is an Abelian group with elements $a$ and $b$ with orders $m$ and $n$, respectively, then $G$ contains an element whose order is the least common multiple of $m$ and $n$?  It's an exercise from Hungerford's book, but it's not homework. I could not solve it when I take the course on groups and I think it should be easy. There is a hint that says to first prove when $m$ and $n$ are coprimes. I did this part. But I have no idea how to solve the general case.  Thanks. Is ¬¬(¬¬P → P) provable in intuitionistic logic? Splitting of primes in the compositum of fields If $L_i/K$ are Galois extensions of number fields, $i=1,\ldots,n$, and $L=L_1\cdots L_n$ is the compositum. Then it's true that a prime $\mathfrak{p}$ of $K$ splits in $L$ if and only if it splits in all of $L_i$. Does this also hold if the $L_i$ are not Galois extensions of $K$?  The proof that I know regarding the compositum uses the fact that the $L_i/K$ are Galois, so is this true in the more general setting and how would one prove it? How do I remove a malformed line from my sources.list? I have over 400 open-ended responses. The total has been coded by one rater, and a 10% identical sample of the total has been coded by 2 raters. There is a choice of 14 nominal codes, of which the rater can use any number per case, though most cases have between 1-4 codes. Which statistical test is the most appropriate to determine if I have inter-rater agreement on the 10% sample?   Also am I right in assuming that I will need to treat each code as a variable and look for the level of agreement for each variable?   I'm using SPSS 21.  Much thanks, Kellie Subfiles failing with custom class Can't open a folder in windows 7 64bit, by double clicking, it shows me that the default option for opening folder is "cmd" (it's highlighted when i'm right clicking a folder, and the "open" option comes next). I've tried running some registry fixing tools, but it didn't fix it. Can someone suggest me what should I do. How to synchronize systemd stop order from one service? Suppose I have a.service which I cannot modify, and b.service which I can modify, I want to see this stop order:  Stopping b.service ... Stopped b.service Stopping a.service ... Stopped a.service   instead of this:  Stopping b.service ... Stopping a.service ... Stopped b.service Stopped a.service   Assume that b.service may take at least 20 seconds to finish. Currently the Flag feature, on answers, offers five choices. Three of them request moderator attention:   Not an answer Very low quality "Other"   In the spirit of reducing the burden on moderators, and distributing that work a little bit more evenly around the community, I'm proposing a couple of small tweaks to the way answers are flagged.   Eliminate  as an option. Very low quality posts that are, nevertheless, genuine answers do not need moderator attention - they should just be downvoted. (Further justification for this is  and ) Replace  with four specific options:   Should have been a comment - this is not an answer, it is a comment on the question or on another answer. Flagger would then be required to choose which post it should have been a comment on. Should have been an edit - this is not an answer, it is additional information about the question from the original asker. Only appears if the answer is from the same user as the question. Me-too! non-answer - this answer consists of nothing more than "Me too!" or "Did anyone find the answer?" Conversational and irrelevant - this is not an answer, just a random conversation or rant, or meaningless typing that should be deleted    This makes life much easier on the moderators, because now the moderator is not expected to clean up after the bad answer, they merely have to peek at what happened and click "Agree" or "Disagree". If they agree:   Should have been a comment converts the answer to a comment Should have been an edit converts the answer to an edit and it is appended to the question Me-too! non-answer deletes the answer and leaves a form-message for the poster explaining that we don't like "Me too", but they should upvote the question if they think it's important or valuable Conversational and irrelevant - deletes the answer and leaves a form-message for the poster explaining that we are a Q&amp;A site, etc. etc.   In fact, if enough people with high enough flag weight or reputation (FORMULA TBD) apply the same flag, the moderation happens automatically, without moderator involvement.  To prevent the moderation queue from filling up with problems that might cure themselves, these flags don't even go in the moderator queue until some period of time (TBD) has passed.  Thoughts? How do I clear Bash's cache of paths to executables? My dconf/gsettings installation is broken. How can I fix it without Ubuntu reinstall? I run Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS x64 in VirtualBox. After one very unfortunate misclick (reset saved state instead of load saved state) I got a very annoying problem.  Almost all applications (unity, synaptic, gedit, etc.) print on start:  Using the 'memory' GSettings backend.  Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications.   And all GUI settings reset after reboot.   Another symptom:  $ GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf dconf-editor (dconf-editor:2353): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: Can't find module 'dconf' specified in GSETTINGS_BACKEND GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend.  Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications   But /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libdconfsettings.so is present.     What I tried (and it didn't help):   sudo apt-get install -f --reinstall  dconf-tools libdconf0 libdconf-dbus-1-0 dconf-service Build dconf-0.5 from sources and make install it Create empty user profile and start programs there   I have to keep current Ubuntu installation so a complete reinstall is not an option for me.   How can I fix it? This has been puzzling me for a few days now, and I asked a graphic designer I knew before trying here and haven't been able to solve it yet. It's quite weird so please bear with me for a bit.  I am using Adobe Illustrator to create a logo, and I have something that can potentially work. I have used only the pen tool with strokes (no fill), but the issue is, when I view the logo at 100%, it looks pixellated! I know vectors should not even be able to appear pixellated, but they are. Here is the screenshot from AI, without exporting to anything:     That was just done using the snipping tool within Windows, and it's at 100% zoom.  I have anti-aliasing turned on from Edit > Preferences > General, and the document resolution is at 300 ppi (I get the same result with 72 ppi).   Could anyone help me with this?   If relevant: Using CS6, and have a 24 inch Dell U2412M at 1920x1200 resolution. I do have a 21.6" Samsung at 1680x1050 and I get the same result there as well. Let me know if you need any other settings, or if you would like the file, I'd be happy to provide it to be able to solve this problem. show all my unanswered questions from SE Any way how to get    my all un-answered questions  from across all SE sites?