I've come across all kinds of sites that are just scraping SE sites and taking the info for themselves, usually with a crappy UI. The most recent I've come across is , which seems to be scraping SU. Are we doing anything about them? Do we even care?
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How to render from Eevee in Blender 2.8? I have the Blender 2.8 version from the 21st Sep 2018 I was looking forward to render a test sequence but cannot find a render button anywhere? Does anyone know where to find it? Managing error with GPS routes (theoretical framework?) I'm looking for the appropriate theoretical framework or speciality to help me deal with understanding how to deal with the errors that the GPS system has - especially when dealing with routes.  Fundamentally, I'm looking for the requirements on the data and any algorithms to use to be able to establish the length of a trail. The answer needs to be trustworthy.  A friend of mine was the race director of a race which was billed as 160km but the Garmin watches everybody has makes it more like 190km+. It caused quite some grief at the finish line, let me tell you!  So my friend went back to the course with various GPS devices in order to remap it and the results are interesting.  Using a handheld Garmin Oregon 300 she got 33.7km for one leg. For the same leg on a wrist watch Garmin Forerunner 310xt it came out to 38.3km.  When I got the data from the Oregon it was obvious that it was only recording data every 90 seconds or so. The Forerunner does it every couple of seconds.  When I plotted the data from the Oregon I could see that it got confused by some switchbacks and put a line straight through them and a curve was made a little less.  However, I muse that the difference in the recording frequency is much of the explanation. i.e. by recording every couple of seconds the Forerunner is closer to the real route. However, there will be an amount of error because of the way GPS works. If the points recorded are spread around the real route randomly (because of the error) then the total distance will be larger than the real route. (A wiggle line going either side of a straight line is longer than the straight line).  So, my questions: 1. Are there any techniques I can use on a single dataset to reduce the error in a valid way? 2. Does my theory about the difference in recording frequency hold water? 3. If I have multiple recordings of the same routes are there any valid techniques to combine them to get closer to the real route?  As I say, I don't really know what to search for to find any useful science about this. I'm looking for ways to establish just how long a given piece of trail is and it is very important to people. An extra 30km in a race is an extra 5+ hours we weren't expecting.  As requested here is some sample data:       Thanks for any advice you can give. I just bought a new MTB and am planning to change my previous MTB into a Road Bike.   How do I do it? What kind of parts do I need to change or add or remove?  I am not looking to for a full conversion into specialised road bike. But like the answers are suggesting, I am looking for a bridge between commuter or road bike. My majors concerns to be met are:   Should be fast enough to compete with road racers over short distance Should be light as a road  Should be as close as possible in as cheap as possible. Pluralization of acronyms ending in 'S' Why isn't Derivative equal to NeumannValue? Why is a boolean value in JTable showing as true/false instead of a checkbox? LM393 voltage comparator is not working How do I search events between two set dates inside WP? How to export data as CSV format from SQL Server using sqlcmd? The  lists various combinatorial objects that are described by them. I posit that there might be bijections between these various combinatorial objects. For some of them (like Dyck paths, correctly matched parentheses and paths from the bottom left to top right of a $2n \times 2n$ grid) they are quite obvious.   I was then trying to find a bijection between the number of Dyck words and the number of ways of associating $n$ applications of a binary operator to $n+1$ items (third one on the list). I attempted to do this for a simple case ($n=3$ which is the example provided in the Wikipedia article). However, couldn't find one after multiple hours. Is it reasonable to expect such a bijection will exist? If so, how do we go about finding it?    EDIT: In addition to the very nice answer by @Marc, the following page also helped me see the bijection:   "Let $P$ be the Dyck path and $f(P)$ be the binary tree. If you go up in the Dyck path, create a left child. Otherwise, go up one vertex until creating a new right child is possible and create one."    Here is one of my attempts:   Number of Dyck words with length $2 \times 3$ is $\frac{6 \choose 3}{4} = 5$. They are:  hhhttt; hhthtt; hhttht; hthhtt; hththt  And the number of applications of a binary operator among $3+1=4$ factors is:  ((ab)c)d;     (a(bc))d;     (ab)(cd);     a((bc)d);     a(b(cd))  Both combinatorial objects have been arranged in a way that there is some kind of ordering between them. For the Dyck words for example, if h equals +1 and t equals -1, then the order is lexicographical from the left to the right of the cumulative score along the sequence.   Now, the first and last characters of the Dyck words are always h and t respectively. So, we can ignore them. We are left with:  hhtt; htht; htth; thht; thth  I tried to start from the left of the sequence abcd and if I see 'h', merge the character with the one to its right. This approach didn't produce a valid mapping from the third Dyck word to the third binary operator precedence order. How to prove $n^5 - n$ is divisible by $30$ without reduction How can I prove that prove $n^5 - n$ is divisible by $30$? I took $n^5 - n$ and got $n(n-1)(n+1)(n^2+1)$ Now, $n(n-1)(n+1)$ is divisible by $6$. Next I need to show that $n(n-1)(n+1)(n^2+1)$ is divisible by $5$. My guess is using Fermat's little theorem but I don't know how. I'm running CentOS 7.0 build 1503. I'm trying to search for commands I don't know the name of by searching the man descriptions for multiple keywords using AND (e.g. search for a command containing the both words "create" and "group" in the description).  So I came across the command apropos (which is an alias for man -k). The default behaviour when given multiple keywords is to return any command matching any of the keywords, which isn't what I want. According to the man page the option -a specifies using AND, to return matches only when all words match.  But this isn't what I'm seeing in practice, so I need some help here - e.g. using Centos 7, if I do:  apropos create user   I see a huge list of commands, seemingly matching any command with create or user in the description, as expected. Noting the list includes an entry for the command 'useradd (8) - create a new user...'.  If I do:  apropos -a create user   I only get 2 commands (environ and open). This is what I'm confused by - I would expect it to return the command 'useradd (8) - create a new user', because i can see from the previous search that command does contain those words in the description. Also the 2 returned commands don't obviously seem to be anything about creating users. What am I doing wrong? I'm sure it's something embarrassingly obvious, for that I apologise in advance.  Thanks Because of past conflicts, I don't believe my advisor will write me a good LOR for postdoc positions. What should I do? How essential is having my advisor's letter for post doc application?   I had a pretty bad relationship with my advisor for more than 4 years since I joined his lab and sometimes the relationship feels like slow inflammation that can easily flare up. We had very different opinion on how I want to approach my thesis and we argue very often on the experimental approach and the angle of attack. After that, he turned passive aggressive and completely hands-off. I noticed that he started slow to response to my email and given me very small amount time for meeting in comparison to other people in the lab. However, I proved to him that my approach was right and wrote the full paper myself and got published.   Recently, I got contact by a post doc employer who interested in my own work and request letter of recommendation. I asked my advisor for letter and he told me that I should write my own from which he can modify. I feel this is quite strange as he had wrote for all the other people in the lab, including a departing post doc who is currently interviewing for job. He told me he had done the same for other people but obviously he lied to me.   I further asked if he can provide me a copy of a completed version of the recommendation but he refused.   My question is should I still trust him to write my letter and is it essential? This post doc position is a great opportunity for me and either way I do is a big gamble.  Update: I decided to let my advisor wrote a letter for me and I think I may have made a big mistake. Since he wrote my letter, I asked the post doc lab head if my letter is completed and I no longer be able to hear back from him. Before that, he was quick to response to my email and showed great enthusiasm. As an insurance, I use one opportunity I have less desire to as bait to test the water and I still have one more shot at another position I really want.  Now, I'm thinking requesting open letter from advisor from now on for any future position or use letter service to check the letter.   Any suggestion? Thanks.  update: Great news! Got interviewed and offered at top ones! Thanks everyone! Pre-1972 sci-fi short story or novel: alien(?) tunnel where people try new moves and get destroyed if they're not the correct ones It might be a short story or it might be a novel. It must be before 1972 because I read it in my youth and I am OLD.  The following is very impressionistic.  There is a multidimensional/not of this Earth/alien artifact-like tunnel.   Picture a long, perhaps transparent, storm drain like structure sitting in a field but with an opening on only one end.  It is the subject of a lengthy investigation/exploration that has cost many lives. An instrumented investigator enters the "tunnel" and makes the exact movements that his predecessors have made, advancing until he must do something original at which point he survives and a new "move" is added to the list of correct moves or he is destroyed and a "move" is added to the list of things to be avoided at that point.  I remember absolutely nothing else about the work except that (I hope central) feature. Can I remove receipts from imported products from my passport? I have recently imported books into Canada from Japan.  As I bought in excess of 5000¥, the purchase was tax free and the receipt was stapled to my passport and stamped.  Since I've now come back to Canada and no issues occurred with my imports, Is it safe to remove the receipts from my passport?  As it was stamped and stapled, there will remain a trace that something was there. Could this cause problems when I return to Japan at a later time? Why does the direction of a dipole moment go from negative to positive charge? An  is defined as $p = q\times d$ (for two point charges $\pm q$ separated by a distance $d$).    What is the physical meaning of this quantity?  Why does the direction of the electric dipole moment go from the negative charge to the positive charge? Another way of saying this, why electric dipole moment is a vector quantity? How do you debug PHP scripts? How do you debug PHP scripts?  I am aware of basic debugging such as using the Error Reporting. The breakpoint debugging in PHPEclipse is also quite useful.  What is the best (in terms of fast and easy) way to debug in phpStorm or any other IDE? Rejecting a PhD offer after having accepted it. Advice? I have accepted a PhD offer from a very good university to do a project very close to my interests. I have told the project supervisor I accept it. In the meanwhile I have managed to secure a PhD offer from another 2 universities much better in world rankings and with better research groups and better faculty. Additionally these 2 universities do research exactly on what I want to devote my PhD research.  My only commitment to the first university is a mail confirming I accept. Nothing else. I understand declining the offer after already having accepted it is quite dishonest but it is a huge decision that will affect my future in a very significant level.   I would like your opinion and I would also like to ask for possible consequences of such an action. As far a postdocs concerned, in the first university there is no chance I ever get a postdoc since they do not actually do research on my area (except for the prospective supervisor and even he not as much).  UPDATE I have decided to do as I was afraid to. I have decided to choose a different university than the first one that I have already accepted the offer. My offer acceptance included:    An online "I accept" statement. An e-mail I sent stating "I accept the scholarship and this University is my first option"   I do not have any legal commitments since I have not signed anything. The supervisor of the first university though is really nice to me and continuously was sending me mails. How do I very nicely tell her I will not be joining in the end? Additionally the place I will go in the end will be for research in Mathematics and not Physics. Can I use this as a part of a sensical excuse?  WHAT I HAVE CHOSEN AND WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES WERE  I think that I should let people, especially other beginning grad students know what happened with my case. I have chosen to nicely tell the first university I got accepted that I will not be attending and will not be pursuing a PhD there since I decided I have different research interests (which is true). I had applied there in the first place since I was not sure what I wanted to do and because it was a nice program. Despite that, I got an offer from a World top university to work on 100% my research interests. I explained this to them, the first uni, and they happily let me go and wished me good luck, especially the supervisor who faught a lot secure me funding. I was lucky. Why is it "come" rather than "go" ? Loopback to forwarded Public IP address from local network - Hairpin NAT This is a  about Hairpin NAT (Loopback NAT).   The generic form of this question is:  We have a network with clients, a server, and a NAT Router. There is port forwarding on the router to the server so some of it's services are available externally. We have DNS pointing to the external IP. Local network clients fail to connect, but external work.   Why does this fail? How can I create a unified naming scheme (DNS names which work both locally and externally)?   This question has answeres merged from multiple other questions. They originally referenced FreeBSD, D-Link, Microtik, and other equipment. They're all trying to solve the same problem however.