Android setTime() throwing NullPointer Exception
What is a NullPointerException, and how do I fix it?
Will doing timelapses break my camera? I was planning to do some timelapses in the near future, until I realised that if I leave my camera taking pictures for a week or 2, I will soon reach the max number of shutter count and my camera would break.   Then I read from an unverified source that during timelapse the shutter doesn't move, so there is no way to break it. I am confused.   Is it possible to take timelapses without physically destroying the shutter in a month? In particular, I am interested in Canon 80D model. How does the Flash breathe while utilizing his super speed? How do the Flashes breathe utilizing their super speed? The air pressure would be extreme. Do they run in a pressurized bubble? Watching The Lord of the Rings movies I was really captivated by the   elephant riders and the men in brazen scale armor who aided the orcs   against the forces of Gondor and Rohan. From what I know they are from   the cultures that worship Sauron. I'd like to know what Tolkien wrote   about them, their religion, their way of life, and so on.   From How accurate is approximating the Earth as a sphere? What level of error do I encounter when approximating the earth as a sphere? Specifically, when dealing with the location of points and, for example, the great circle distances between them.  Are there any studies on the average and worst case error compared to an ellipsoid? I'm wondering how much accuracy I'd be sacrificing if I go with a sphere for the sake of easier calculations.  My particular scenario involves directly mapping WGS84 coordinates as if they were coordinates on a perfect sphere (with the  defined by the IUGG) without any transformation. Using the simple example below, what is the best way to return results from multiple tables using Linq to SQL?  Say I have two tables:  Dogs:   Name, Age, BreedId Breeds: BreedId, BreedName   I want to return all dogs with their BreedName.  I should get all dogs using something like this with no problems:  public IQueryable&lt;Dog&gt; GetDogs() {     var db = new DogDataContext(ConnectString);     var result = from d in db.Dogs                  join b in db.Breeds on d.BreedId equals b.BreedId                  select d;     return result; }   But if I want dogs with breeds and try this I have problems:  public IQueryable&lt;Dog&gt; GetDogsWithBreedNames() {     var db = new DogDataContext(ConnectString);     var result = from d in db.Dogs                  join b in db.Breeds on d.BreedId equals b.BreedId                  select new                         {                             Name = d.Name,                             BreedName = b.BreedName                         };     return result; }   Now I realize that the compiler won't let me return a set of anonymous types since it's expecting Dogs, but is there a way to return this without having to create a custom type?  Or do I have to create my own class for DogsWithBreedNames and specify that type in the select?  Or is there another easier way? What is the best way to convert seconds into (Hour:Minutes:Seconds:Milliseconds) time? What is the best way to convert seconds into (Hour:Minutes:Seconds:Milliseconds) time?  Let's say I have 80 seconds, are there any specialized classes/techniques in .NET that would allow me to convert those 80 seconds into (00h:00m:00s:00ms) format like to DateTime or something? Is it possible to install an earlier version of Skype on Windows 8? I'm trying to perfectly overlap two images, one complementary of the other, but apperas a white stripe in the conjunction of the path, all points are perfectly aligned how can I fix? How do I install a .deb file via the command line? How do I install a .deb file via the command line? I have a CSV with an address field (no lat/long), so I went to Google My Maps, imported the csv and geocoded of the records.  Now I export the layer as KML and added the KML to QGIS and Google Earth Pro, but in non of them I can see the markers. In fact in QGIS, the KML layer is added as datatable (no geometry).  What's happening? How can I export a geometry layer from google My Maps? How to use the Extended Euclidean Algorithm manually? I've only found a recursive algorithm of the extended Euclidean algorithm. I'd like to know how to use it by hand. Any idea? Why should users have to press Return twice to insert new lines? When I post a question and want to add a new line, I have to press Return two times, or else the next text will appear on the same line.  Is this really supposed to behave this way? If so, why? Prove $\gcd(a+b, a-b) = 1$ or $2\,$ if $\,\gcd(a,b) = 1$ I want to show that for $\gcd(a,b) = 1$ $a,b \in Z$   $\gcd(a+b, a-b) = 1$ or $\gcd(a+b, a-b) = 2$ holds.      I think the first step should look something like this:      $d = \gcd(a+b, a-b) = \gcd(2a, a-b)$   From here I tried to proceed with two cases. 1: $a-b$ is even, which leads to $\gcd(a+b, a-b) = 2$ 2: $a-b$ is odd, which leads to $\gcd(a+b, a-b) = 1$  My main problem I think is, that I do not know how I should include $\gcd(a,b) = 1$ in the proof.  Any help is appreciated. Thx in advance. Cherio Woltan I have a table with a varchar(max) column that stores text ~4-10KB in size. Data is just being added - never modified, it is a log. My problem is that a table grows too large in size - I would like to keep about 1000000 rows in this table.   I am limited to SQL Server Express and hit the limit on database size. Compression is not available in SQL Server Express and I afraid that Filestream may not be appropriate and the number of files would be too big.   What is the best solution in this case? A single row background colour I heard Andrew Ng (in a video I unfortunately can't find anymore) talk about how the understanding of local minima in deep learning problems has changed in the sense that they are now regarded as less problematic because in high-dimensional spaces (encountered in deep learning) critical points are more likely to be saddle points or plateaus rather than local minima.   I've seen papers (e.g. ) that discuss assumptions under which "every local minimum is a global minimum". These assumptions are all rather technical, but from what I understand they tend to impose a structure on the neural network that make it somewhat linear.  Is it a valid claim that, in deep learning (incl. nonlinear architectures), plateaus are more likely than local minima? And if so, is there a (possibly mathematical) intuition behind it?   Is there anything particular about deep learning and saddle points? So I have learned in class that light can get red-shifted as it travels through space. As I understand it, space itself expands and stretches out the wavelength of the light. This results in the light having a lower frequency which equates to lowering its energy.  My question is, where does the energy of the light go? Energy must go somewhere!   Does the energy the light had before go into the mechanism that's expanding the space? I'm imagining that light is being stretched out when its being red-shifted. So would this mean that the energy is still there and that it is just spread out over more space? Let ($x_s$) be a convergent sequence, where $x_s&gt;0$ for all s, and $y_s$ be a sequence such that   $$\displaystyle \Large y_s=\frac{s}{\frac{1}{x_1}+...+\frac{1}{x_s}}$$  Prove $\displaystyle \lim x_s$=$\lim y_s$  So I know things like $x_s$ is bounded, and that it's Cauchy, but I can't think of anything to solve it.  Any help is appreciated. Deriving the Coulomb force equation from the idea of photon exchange? Steam not opening in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS I have never used Ubuntu or any other Linux OS before last Friday. For all I know, I might have installed Ubuntu wrong and be missing a component. I would prefer if you use simplest terminology possible, but I'm OK with doing a bit of googling if need be. I just installed Steam for Ubuntu 16.04 but it won't open when I click on it in the launcher. The icon flashes for a few seconds, stops and then nothing happens. I looked in the system monitor and steam shows up there but ending the process and trying again does nothing. I heard trying to open apps that aren't working through the terminal tells you what the error is so I tried that and I got this:  Running Steam on ubuntu 16.04 64-bit STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0) libGL error: unable to load driver: radeonsi_dri.so libGL error: driver pointer missing libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast   Please help I just want to play CS:GO again.