I am German and was blacklisted December 2018 at the Chennai Airport without any explanation. I had founded a Trust in Germany to support children coming from very poor rural Areas in South India (35 children, Sponsors offering 10-15.-€/month/child).    As I found out later the mistake was sending the money directly to our Indian workers, instead of sending the money to an Indian Trust with FCRA number. I resigned from the Trust and our German Trust joined with an Indian Trust with FCRA number. I have contacted the Ministry of Home Affairs several times as well as the Bureau of Immigration New Delhi, the Indian Embassy in Berlin and the Indian Consulate in Frankfurt. So far no reply. Do you have any suggestion how to proceed further?   Would it be counterproductive to approach an Indian Lawyer? Or do you happen to know an Indian Lawyer specified in the matter?    I would be so grateful for any advice or help!!
I am a Bangladeshi citizen. Back in 2013, I went to India with a tourist visa and overstayed for four days. It was due to a gout attack in my feet but I don't have my medical papers to prove that.  I applied again in 2015 for a visa, at Dhaka, and they refused my visa and blacklisted my passport, writing some numbers and date on it. Now I am not able to get an Indian visa.  How I can remove my passport from the blacklist and get a new Indian visa? Do I need a Indian immigration lawyer to do this?
How to show the inequality for $\int_{0}^{\pi/4}\tan^n(x) dx$ I can't seem to figure out the inequality option, I substituted n=2 for the answer bit is there any elegant way of getting it? Display the original, unedited post on the post editing page I edit people's posts occasionally on ServerFault when the grammar/punctuation/coherence goes below a threshold that my OCD can handle. However, on some of the thornier posts I would like to be able to compare my edits to the original text, especially when doing a final proof-reading of my edits.  At the moment, my only options are to either copy the original text into a text editor or copy a duplicate of the text into the editing field. From there I can compare my edits to the original text and make sure I'm preserving the original meaning as I attempt to untangle less than optimal communication.  This request is somewhat similar to this Meta post: "" All my properties are zero, and my array is zero, even though I have populated them with numbers and objects Splitting a PDF document in two without purchasing a PDF editing tool Acrobat Reader allow us to easily save a copy of the PDF document. How can I save only from page 5 to 10 without purchasing a PDF editing tool? We are all told at school water vapour and carbon dioxide are the top two greenhouse gases, and that they absorb thermal infra red radiation, trap heat and warm up the Earth. My question is how do they do that? Why can't Oxygen or Nitrogen or any other gas not absorb infra red radiation as well as water vapour or CO2? In university last semester I was asked to prove that $\sin1$ (1 radian that is) is irrational,  and ended up simply using the Taylor Series Expansion. This method provides a very quick solution, but I am curious as to whether anyone has a method for proving this without making use of the Taylor Series Expansion. I feel as though doing so must be possible using some number theory, but am low on ideas as to an alternative approach to the question.  Note:  If anyone is interested in my solution using Taylor Series Expansion (although it is not the focus of my question), here it is :      From    $$ \sin x = x - \frac{x^3}{3!} + \frac{x^5}{5!} -  \dots$$   We see that    $$ \alpha = \sin 1 = 1 - \frac{1^3}{3!} + \frac{1^5}{5!} -  \dots $$   Given integers $a$ and $b$, if $\alpha = \frac{a}{b}$ then it follows that $b!\alpha \in \mathbb{Z}$, and $b!\alpha = C + D$ where $C \in \mathbb{Z}$ and we have :   $$ D = \begin{cases} \pm(\frac{1}{b+1} - \frac{1}{(b+1)(b+2)(b+3)} + \dots) \text{    if $b$ is even}\\ \pm(\frac{1}{(b+1)(b+2)} - \frac{1}{(b+1)\dots(b+4)} + \dots ) \text{ if $b$ is odd}\\ \end{cases} $$   In each case we can see that $0 &lt; D &lt; 1$, giving us a contradiction.    Thus, we have that $\sin 1 $ is irrational.    $$ \blacksquare $$ Making layer or group private/hidden/invisible in Layers Panel of QGIS I have a number of layers in the Layers Panel inside a group but I don't want them shown (there's quite a lot so it looks untidy). These layers are also joined to several others. Is it possible to make these layers invisible to the user (i.e. not shown in the Layers Panel, it is not about setting the visibility of the layer) but can still be joined to other layers, or perhaps to make the group invisible? Closest I found was this post but hoping there's a more direct approach: Finding the limit of $\frac{Q(n)}{P(n)}$ where $Q,P$ are polynomials Suppose that $$Q(x)=a_{n}x^{n}+a_{n-1}x^{n-1}+\cdots+a_{1}x+a_{0} $$and $$P(x)=b_{m}x^{m}+b_{m-1}x^{m-1}+\cdots+b_{1}x+b_{0}.$$ How do I find $$\lim_{x\rightarrow\infty}\frac{Q(x)}{P(x)}$$ and what does the sequence $$\frac{Q(k)}{P(k)}$$ converge to?  For example, how would I find what the sequence $$\frac{8k^2+2k-100}{3k^2+2k+1}$$ converges to?  Or what is $$\lim_{x\rightarrow\infty}\frac{3x+5}{-2x+9}?$$   This is being asked in an effort to cut down on duplicates, see here: Coping with  duplicate questions.  and here: . How to revert to GNOME Classic Desktop? Logistic regression cost surface not convex I am building a simple logistic regression model on 2D data. Here is the input I use.    I built a logistic regression model using this data and it successfully is able to find the discriminating line between these two classes. Here is the separating line found by my program:    Also, just for debugging, I plotted number of iterations vs J(theta), which also looks fine:    Now, confusing part comes into play. I am investigating the cost surface of this model that the logistic regressions is doing the gradient descent on. I am considering three different loss functions. Sum-of-squared loss, hinge-loss, log-loss.  Hinge loss:    Log-loss:    Sum-of-squared loss:    As far as I know, both hinge loss, sum-of-squared loss and log-loss should produce a convex surface. When I look at my surfaces, however, sum-of-squared surface does not look convex to me. Why is that the case?  For convenience, here is the two critical functions from my code:  function retval = J(X, y, theta)     M = size(y, 1);     % sum of squared error     retval = (1/(2*M)) * sum((h(X, theta) - y).^2);  endfunction  function retval = h (X, theta)     % logistic     retval =  1 ./ (1+ exp(-1 * (X * theta))); endfunction What would I prefer - an over-fitted model or a less accurate model? Let's say we have two models trained. And let's say we are looking for good accuracy.  The first has an accuracy of 100% on training set and 84% on test set. Clearly over-fitted. The second has an accuracy of 83% on training set and 83% on test set.   On the one hand, model #1 is over-fitted but on the other hand it still yields better performance on an unseen test set than the good general model in #2.   Which model would you choose to use in production? The First or the Second and why? Is there a correct resistance value for I2C pull-up resistors? What does "What are you up to?" mean? I overheard my manager asking "What are you up to?"  What does that idiom mean? Is it an informal/negative way of asking?? returning a local variable from function in C PHP mail function doesn't complete sending of e-mail Interpreting the Kretschmann scalar reference overlay numbers with names ok, ive a class and i pass an object as property.  the object that i pass is a List&lt;X&gt;  in my class im trying to access the Object index by reflection BUT I CAN'T!!!   Example:  this class works i just wrote down the part i want to show you and i need help.  class MyClass {     private object _recordSet;     public object RecordSet     {         get { return _recordSet; }         set { _recordSet = value; }     }      public string Draw()     {         system.reflection.Assembly asem = system.reflection.Assembly.getAssembly(_dataSource.GetType());          object instance;          instance = asem.CreateInstance(_dataSource.GetType().UnderlyingSystemType.FullName);          //to access de Count of my List         int recordcount = int.Parse(_dataSource.GetType().GetProperty("Count").GetValue(_dataSource,null));          //i need to do a          for(int cont = 0; cont &lt; recordCount; cont++)         {             _dataSource[cont].Name; // &lt;-- THIS PART IS NOT WORKING!!! because i cant access the Index Directly.... WHAT TO DO!! ???         }     } } Find the value of : $\cos x \cos 2x...\cos 999x$ given that $x=\frac {2\pi}{1999}$ Where are the proprietary NVIDIA drivers in 16.04? The proprietary NVIDIA drivers "disappeared" with my latest update:    The option of "Proprietary drivers for devices" is correctly set under the "Ubuntu Software" tab. I have the graphics-driver PPA (ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa) correctly added to my sources.  Any ideas on how to bring the proprietary drivers back?  PS1: I need them because some of the games I play under wine don't work without them, for whatever reason.  PS2: Also, this feels like it should have a straightforward answer, but I've been looking online for a while without luck.