Why is "Update: an agreement with Monica Cellio" not on showing on top questions? Ok clearly it is because it is getting so many down votes.   But can something be done so that is stays visible?   Had I not noticed it when I did, I might have missed it.
Hiding downvoted questions silences important discussions on Meta I just noticed a particular MSE post today on a topic I care about that was posted almost a week ago, which I entirely missed before. I'm a pretty avid MSE user, and this happens quite rarely to me.     was created by an SE employee, and is essentially the final answer to , which is the 10th most upvoted MSE post with a bit more than 900 upvotes right now. So it's kind of an important post, and on a topic I care about, but I still missed it entirely until it was linked in a comment somewhere else.  The reason I missed it is because it's heavily downvoted. This means that as it has below -8 score, it's hidden from the home page entirely, drastically reducing the visibility of the post. In particular, the negative score removes all visibility a question usually receives from being bumped due to edits, new answers and bounties.   Many of the recent heavily-downvoted Meta posts by SE have been featured manually, which grants them a lot of visibility beyond the particular meta site. This masked the problem pretty efficiently, but it is more of a workaround, and one that isn't applicable to all situations.  Voting means something different on meta sites, and not every downvoted question should be hidden from view. Closed downvoted questions can certainly still be affected by the usual rules on the home page, and that should cover the vast majority of questions that actually have a purpose being on the home page. But open questions should be displayed on the home page on meta sites even if they're heavily downvoted.
My reputation rating on SO took this hit an hour ago, and it is due to what appears to be the simultaneous deletion of multiple questions.  I am uncertain why it happened, am concerned, and would appreciate an explanation.  Going to  shows that it was removed due to moderation.  Was a script run deliberately, or were we hit with a question deletion attack; what happened?  -12     today -2  1 hour ago  removed     How to send a 2d Vector over UDP in c++ -2  1 hour ago  removed     How do I use the Eclipse debugger to debug a Java application? -2  1 hour ago  removed     PHP string error; inconsistency with local and server -2  1 hour ago  removed     Unable to start the MySQL service after a server migration -2  1 hour ago  removed     How to use Java to print a text file on a ticket printer? -2  1 hour ago  removed     How can all of the ZBrush Obj files be imported to make a complete model? Possible Duplicate:          Both words seem to be used interchangeably. I generally don't differentiate between them and intuitively pick one over the other. Is there a standardized way to distinguish between the two? Keeping track of where everyone is is hard.  I could be out in the wasteland while Dogmeat will let me know he found something. That's great, but then it's a chore trying to find him a lot of times. Sometimes, he'll even run ahead and attack enemies and I'll lose sight of him. Only if I leave an area sufficiently far enough, he'll come back and meet with me which isn't always possible. I know I can listen out for him but visual indicators would be better. But none of this works if I sent him to a settlement but needed to find him and he hasn't returned yet.  Is there anything we can do to make locating companions in the world easier? Divisibility Rule for 9 I'm working through an elementary number theory course right now and I think I've come up with a proof here but wanted some feedback on my logic.    Question:  If the sum of the digits in base 10 is divisible by 9, then the number itself is divisible by 9.    Proof: Suppose that $9|d_1+d_2+...+d_n$ then $d_1+d_2+...+d_n=0\mod9$  Now consider $d_1(10^{n-1})+d_2(10^{n-2})+...+d_{(n-1)}(10^1)+d_n(10^0)$ Each power of $10$ is equivalent to $1\mod9$   therefor  $d_1(10^{n-1})+d_2(10^{n-2})+...+d_{(n-1)}(10^1)+d_n(10^0)=(1\mod9)(d_1+d_2+...d_n)$  $9|(d_1+d_2+...d_n)$ by our assumption, thus $9|(1\mod9)(d_1+d_2+...d_n)$  Thus we have shown that if 9 divides the sum of the digits in base 10, 9 divides the number itself.    The only question I really have is whether I'm jumping the gun on my assumption concerning the powers of 10 being $1\mod 9$.  I think this is fair game here but not 100% confident.  Thanks. Novel about a man who has his car stolen and is cryogenically frozen with his cat? So this is a bit of a memory game of my behalf, but I'm trying to remember the name of a (presumably) Sci-Fi novel with only a recollection of the following:   A man owns a (yellow?) car parked outside his house along with a cat The car goes missing or is stolen The man decides to be cryogenically frozen for 75 (fairly sure, could be 50?) years along with his cat (I might be muddling up novels but I'm sure there was a cat...?) He takes a walk along the street X years in the future when he wakes up and the currency he has in his pocket is now worthless   I don't think I got that far into the book and all the above happened relatively early.  I read it about 10 years ago and at a guess, it's an 80's novel - all of the above details might be inaccurate, but I'm certain about the cryogenic freezing and the currency aspects.  I'd be surprised if this one gets anywhere! How can I set conditional formatting on a particular cell that depends on another cell's value? What I'm trying to understand is, to what degree does the status/rank of the University (where one completes his/her Ph.D) matter while shaping his/her career after graduation? I would like to know the weight given to one's school in both the following cases:   While applying for post-docs/faculty positions in academia While applying to industrial research labs   For instance, I've read on some forums (I can't locate the link now) that while considering prospective applications for tenure-track faculty positions, very few Universities accept a candidate who has completed his/her Ph.D from a lower ranked school having a lesser "brand" value, irrespective of the fact whether he/she has published equally original work as his/her counterpart from an Ivy league college. How much truth is in this statement? It would be really great if someone already in academia, either as a newly-accepted faculty or someone on the Faculty Hiring committee could share their experiences/statistics on this regard. I'm simply interested to know the answer, without commenting at all on whether such a practice is justifiable.  Similarly, what about recruitment to internationally acclaimed research labs (like  or ) - what importance do they place on the pedigree of a candidate's college, before taking into consideration what they published ?  I'm personally interested in answers related to the field of Computer Science (theory), but the question is applicable to any prospective grad student in any discipline in my opinion. Feel free to share your personal experiences post-Ph.D in detail, as that would give me (and future viewers of this question) about what its like to carve a career once you are out of school! Fiction novel or movie about sentient dinosaurs I remember parts of a story about some researchers finding a society of sentient dinosaurs. I believe they lived underground. From what I recall there were some steam punk elements and I think crystals were important.  From what I recall (this might be wrong) there was a book and also a movie about that story.  In the process, humans lived with these dinosaurs. I am not sure if that was like that from the beginning or if that happened later.  Any idea what that story might be? How to rig a shirt with buttons so that the buttons follow the mesh of the shirt I didn't address this in a while because I was busy with something else, but now it has cycled back into my schedule.  Right now I have a shirt modeled and bones set in place. It's already technically rigged, but the only issue is the buttons.   I'm not entirely sure how to go about connecting them to the shirt's deformations. I tried to combine them and the shirt into one object, but because of the shirt's modifiers, (Solidify and subsurf, which I don't want to apply yet), the buttons become extremely deformed. I've tried to match the weight painting intensity where a button is at in correspondence with the shirt, but that doesn't seem to work, maybe it has to do with the specifics of where the button is?   Is there a way to make the buttons follow the shirt's deformations without deforming the mesh vertices of the button? I know that if I probably apply the modifiers on the shirt and combine it with the buttons, it would be okay, but I'm not okay with doing that just yet with the shirt.    I rigged the shirt by deleting all vertex groups, assigning empty groups to the mesh from the armature, and then assigned automatic groups in the weight paint menu.  Is there a way to do this? I accidentally discovered () that a closing square bracket within an optional argument delimited by [ ] can cause problems.  Here is example code illustrating the issue:  \documentclass{article}   \begin{document}  \tableofcontents  \section[Square brackets ([ and ])]{Square brackets: [ and ]} % bad: the TOC now has "Square brackets ([ and", and the actual title is a mere ")".  Some text.  \section[{Square brackets ([ and ])}]{Square brackets: [ and ]} % good (works as originally intended)  Some text.  \end{document}   The text to be used as the optional (as well as the non-optional) argument contains a ], and this character is not supposed to function as the optional argument terminator but as a matching square bracket/parenthesis. Perhaps this is as it should be, but the question is how to best circumvent any potential problems. Enclosing this in a group works, but I don't know whether doing this has other side effects (perhaps not here in the case of \section but hopefully someone else has a better example of where grouping could lead to a problem). There is no (obvious) way other than writing [{ }] because [ and ] are not normally escaped. That [ and ] are normal characters and bear syntactic function (as optional argument delimiters) creates this potentially problematic situation.  Is simply enclosing the entire optional argument in a group ({ }) a good solution? Are there other/better ways? Infinite series for $e$... How do you prove that $e=\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\frac{1}{n!}$? Here I am assuming $e:=\lim_{n\to\infty}(1+\frac{1}{n})^n$. Do you have any good PDF file or booklet available online on this? I do not like how my analysis text handles this... How to keep vehicles upgrades equipped in Jetpack Joyride? I have Jetpack Joyride for Android, but every time I start the game I have to equip the magnetic upgrades to all vehicles, except the teleporter, which is the only one already equipped.  I had once a game crash that undid my last 2 magnets purchases, so I ended up with only the teleporter and 20k less in cash. After that, I've bought every vehicle magnet, but still the only one that will remain equipped is the teleport.  Anyone already found some similar bug? How could I fix this, it's kinda annoying have to mannually enable 5 different upgrades every time I want to play. How can I change the language of the QGIS Interface? I want the QGIS interface in English, in order to share information with the GIS community. Using another language, when chatting with the GIS community, makes things more difficult. When I installed QGIS, it automatically set the language to French. It's very frustrating not having the opportunity to select my preferred language.   I am using Windows XP in French, but I want QGIS in English. I have multiple polygons, all located offshore around the UK. I am trying to calculate the areas of these polygons in square kilometres, without splitting them by UTM zone.  Is it possible to do this accurately? I have been using World Mercator, but there are big distortions at this scale. If the polygons were limited to the east coast, say, I would use UTM31N. However, as they are all over the UK waters, I am unsure what to use.  Is there a coordinate system that covers this area? British National Grid does not extend far enough out to sea to be of use. Sorting multiple keys with Unix sort Cardioid in coffee mug? Pluralization of names If I were to use the sentence "There are lots of John Smiths" in the world, would that be the correct use for saying that there are a lot of people named John Smith in the world?  I don't think there should be an apostrophe as that would imply ownership of something.  If my first example is correct, then what would you do if the name referenced already ended with an 's'? I have a HP MFP127fw.  It's "supported" by Ubuntu 17.10 - except print jobs will not release from the print que because a special copywrited driver for HP is not installed.  I went through this with 16.10 and had to install a small HP driver that I found with Synaptic.  Then the jobs would release. It isn't part of HPLIPS.  Apparently Ubuntu 17,10 version doesn't run synaptic due to Wayland.  Where can I find this driver? Natural log approximation I've got an equation that contains   $$x^p - 1$$   $x$ is any positive number (such as 2) and $p$ is a small positive number close to 0 (such as 0.001).  For some reason (that I may have known in High School), this can be approximated by   $$\ln(x) \times p$$  Can anyone explain why this approximation works?  Does it have something to do with approximating a natural log with a series? How bad is it to use display: none in CSS? I've heard many times that it's bad to use display: none for SEO reasons, as it could be an attempt to push in irrelevant popular keywords. A few questions:   Is that still received wisdom? Does it make a difference if you're only hiding a single word, or perhaps a single character? If you should avoid any use of it, what are the preferred techniques for hiding (in situations where you need it to become visible again on certain conditions)?   Some references I've found so far:       If you're straight-out using CSS to hide text, don't be surprised if that is called spam. I'm not saying that mouseovers or DHTML text or have-a-logo-but-also-have-text is spam; I answered that last one at a conference when I said "imagine how it would look to a visitor, a competitor, or someone checking out a spam report. If you show your company's name and it's Expo Markers instead of an Expo Markers logo, you should be fine. If the text you decide to show is 'Expo Markers cheap online discount buy online Expo Markers sale ...' then I would be more cautious, because that can look bad."   And  on the same article     We can flag text that appears to be hidden using CSS at Google. To date we have not algorithmically removed sites for doing that. We try hard to avoid throwing babies out with bathwater.   Eric Enge      The legitimate use of this technique is so prevalent that I would rarely expect search engines to penalize a site for using the display: none attribute. It’s just very difficult to implement an algorithm that could truly ferret out whether the particular use of display: none is meant to deceive the search engines or not.