I voted to close the following question because the OP posted the exact question couple of days ago before posting this question. I remember that because I edited the original question with formatting. OP copied the edited question and posted a new question with couple of changes on the title. Below given question was posted only yesterday (February 17, 2013).    I am sure that the question that I used for the duplicate reference had 1 answer. The answer did not have any upvotes though.   What I noticed:   The question used for duplicate reference has been deleted. I don't know who deleted the question (whether OP or moderator). Close votes (there were two votes) on the above mentioned question have disappeared.   Searches on Meta:  Below Meta post shows that when someone can delete their own question.     Below Meta post shows when a close vote will disappear.    Questions:   Did the OP delete the original question because it had only one answer with no upvotes?  My understanding: The Meta searches show that only questions with multiple answers cannot be deleted even none of them had up votes. I assume that OP can delete the question since there was only one answer with no upvotes. Did the close votes disappear from the above-mentioned questions because the question used for duplicate reference was deleted?   My understanding: The Meta searches show the close votes will disappear only if there were at least 100 views or the last close vote had elapsed 4 days. In this case, the above-mentioned question has only 29 views as of writing this post and the question itself was posted only yesterday. These conditions do not meet the criteria to expire the close votes.   Update: (17:45 UTC)  I just noticed that when I click Close link, I get the below message but there are no close votes count displayed on next to the link. I don't find anything on the revision history of the question that suggests a moderator modified something.   Is this behavior because a user is allowed to close a question only once and I already voted to close this question?
The story:   Question posted on Programmers (let's call it ), Same question posted on Code Review (let's call it ), I migrate Q1 to Code Review, Someone notices that Q1 is a duplicate of Q2 and votes to close, I notice the duplicate notice and the auto-generated comment and also try to vote to close, but can't. No error message, nothing, it just doesn't work.   And then I notice that Q2 no longer exists ("voluntarily removed by its author"). My guess is the OP also noticed the duplicate vote, realized how messy cross posts are and decided to be a good citizen and delete one of the two questions. He picked the wrong one though, and now we're left with a duplicate notice pointing to a non existent question and an unresponsive dialog.  It's a mess ;) A weird and rare mess, but still a mess. What can we do about it?
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These would of course yield to inventory from clients if clients had products that were relevant to any given topic.   Nothing changes when it comes to the . If you're used to occasionally seeing a community promotion ad, you'll just notice that you'll also occasionally see an ad for something that is likely to be of interest to someone interested in the topic that your site covers. In fact, to be clear, this is simply a continuation of the announcement we made in November of 2016. We just wanted folks to know that we're going to be continuing the program where there's good potential to show relevant advertisements, even if we don't have clients lined up with a demand for it. Where can I give feedback about a certain ad on [site]? Open a meta post on your per-site meta and let us know. Please remember, the bulk of advertisements are an effort to get something small back from folks that hit the sites through search engines and are extremely unlikely to ever become contributors. Their soufflé stopped falling, and we'll probably never see them again. Maybe we can get a few bucks once they realized that copper ions help egg whites stiffen properly and buy a bowl or a proper bloom whisk. However, you're the experts on these topics and we're very likely going to listen to you. What sites, specifically? Are any sites exempt? If you're a former Stack Exchange 1.0 site and / or subsequently joined the network under a special charter, nothing changes - don't panic :) For the rest, we're just extending what we're currently doing with ads on graduated sites to also include those where there's an opportunity to make sensible use of affiliate ads. If a site has less than 15k (average) daily visits, or fewer than roughly 50k combined total posts - it might not yet be time to invest in selecting ads to be shown there. But, part of this exercise is also seeing what works best. 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An invalid argument, the conclusion of which is a tautology Why it is not possible to have such argument?  I found some textbook Introduction to Formal Logic and this is from one of the first excercises. This is marked as impossible, but I do not understand why. Accessing the iPhone's Call log with the iPhone SDK What are the chances of getting $K$ identical outcomes in a row in a series of $Y$ independent events? Each event has two possible outcomes: a and b.  Each event is independent.  Outcome a has $X\%$ chance of happening.  If we run $Y$ number of such events, what are the chances of getting $K$ outcomes a in a row, at least once?  To put it in practical terms imagine a series of coin tosses. Each coin toss has two possible outcomes: a = heads and b = tails. Outcome a = heads has a chance of $50\%$. If we run $Y = 100$ number of coin tosses, what are the chances of getting $K = 10$ outcomes a=heads in a row, at least once?   I'm using the practical example only so I can express the idea more clearly. I'm interested in finding out the general formulas and computations so that I can run the calculations for any $X$, $Y$, or $K$.  I would also be very interested in knowing how the probabilities would change if the events would not be independent. What if the more outcomes a we have in a row the bigger the chance of getting an outcome a in the next event? What if it's the other way around, and the more outcomes a in a row we have the lower the chance of getting another a? $G$ is a finite group such that $|G|=n$. Let $p$ be the smallest prime such that $p|n$. If $H\triangleleft G$ such that $|H|=p$, then prove that $H\subset Z(G)$.  My Work:  Since $|H|$ is a prime $H\cong \mathbb{Z}/(p)$. Hence $H$ is cyclic and abelian. I was stuck afterwards. Can anyone please give me a hint? How to know add/edit page in hook_form_alter? I want to know whether form is add/edit in hook_form_alter. In Drupal 7 we can get all these in hook_form_alter.  I tried like this in D7:  function MYMODULE_form_alter(&amp;$form, &amp;$form_state, $form_id) {   // Check pages(s) , don't use $_GET.     if (strpos($form['#action'], '/add/') !== FALSE) {       $page = 'add';     }     if (strpos($form['#action'], '/edit') !== FALSE) {       $page = 'edit';     } }   Here I am getting add/edit in D7. Whereas in D8 I am not getting any it in $form['#actions']. And i don't want to use $_GET. Is there any way to check add/edit page in hook_form_alter. Why use the 'ref' keyword when passing an object? If I am passing an object to a method, why should I use the ref keyword? Isn't this the default behaviour anyway?  For example:  class Program {     static void Main(string[] args)     {         TestRef t = new TestRef();         t.Something = "Foo";          DoSomething(t);         Console.WriteLine(t.Something);     }      static public void DoSomething(TestRef t)     {         t.Something = "Bar";     } }   public class TestRef {     public string Something { get; set; } }   The output is "Bar" which means that the object was passed as a reference. How to customize the ubuntu gnome 3 desktop? This is maybe a stupid question, but how can I choose my own background image on ubuntu gnome 3?? I click on Settings -> Background -> then I click on the current background preview to change it but I see only the defaults images! No + symbol to add or something. On the 'Pictures' tab there is nothing to select, I get an empty white page? I am running ubuntu gnome 13.04 3.9.6-030906-generic.  Thanks! Why does English spelling use silent letters? Why have a letter in a word when it’s silent in pronunciation, like the b in debt?  Can anyone please clarify my uncertainty here? What is the fastest way to parse & split XML content with huge file size (800MB UP) into several xml files in Java The difference between log and ln $$\dfrac{1}{2}\ln(x+7)-(2 \ln x+3 \ln y)$$  Our professor let's us solve this but i do not understand how $\ln$ works. He says it has same properties with $\log$ but i still don't get it. What's the difference of the two? How do you interpret a significant but weak correlation? Change pivot or local origin of an object How can I change the local origin of an object, without changing the object location in the world space.  This is the object located at position (0,0,0) in the world space    This is the same object located at position (0,1,0) in the world space, but with its local origin offset so that the object is in the same place    Is there a way to do this in a single step? Evaluating and proving $\lim\limits_{x\to\infty}\frac{\sin x}x$ I've just started learning about limits. Why can we say $$ \lim_{x\rightarrow \infty} \frac{\sin x}{x} = 0 $$ even though $\lim_{x\rightarrow \infty} \sin x$ does not exist?   It seems like the fact that sin is bounded could cause this, but I'd like to see it algebraically.   $$ \lim_{x\rightarrow \infty} \frac{\sin x}{x} =  \frac{\lim_{x\rightarrow \infty} \sin x} {\lim_{x\rightarrow \infty} x}   = ? $$  L'Hopital's rule gives a fraction whose numerator doesn't converge. What is a simple way to proceed here? $F_\sigma$-subsets in a normal space can be separated Let $X$ be a normal Hausdorff space and let $C,D$ be two $F_{\sigma}$ subsets of $X$ such that $\overline{C} \cap D = \emptyset$ and $C \cap \overline{D} = \emptyset$.  Prove there exists disjoint open subsets $U,V$ such that $C \subset U$ and $D \subset V$.  No idea how to show this. Can you please help? Design properties of the Rijndael finite field? So we've already had a question on . My question is - can we use a different finite field other than the one given by $x^8 + x^4 + x^3 + x + 1$ in $GF(2^8)$. In other words, would any irreducible polynomial over this field do the trick or are the special considerations and properties of that particular reducing polynomial?  If a more general discussion on appropriate fields for cryptographic operations, such as those used in ECC, is necessary, then I'd be happy to hear it. What I'm trying to get to is an understanding of whether there are any important properties in terms of the "randomness" of the operation - for example, are there weak fields to operate over? For example, $x^8 + x^3 + x + 1$ ought to also be irreducible - so would it be suitable? I ask partly because of the  which lead me to think not all fields might hold equal strength. Right? Wrong? Inconsequential? equivalent date from GNU to solaris