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hichris123

12:06 AM

!!/report meta.stackexchange.com/a/291618/237685

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Manually reported answer: Adding links to Comments by Nick Willis on meta.SE

Jason C

12:42 AM

Some day, somebody's going to ask "What protocol did people used to use for reading data from a 'keyboard'?" on retrocomputing, and I may have no choice but to throw myself off a bridge.

If you're ever feeling good about where you are in life and need a downer, visit that site.

!!/alive

@JamesENL Of course

Morning

12:59 AM

I wish chrome had "close tabs to the left".

Test

Maintenance! Boooo.

Investigating an issue with our sites

Tweeted by StackStatus on February 28, 2017 at 1:03 AM

Aaron Hall

hurrah for the investigations...

Jason C

Good timing. I was getting super distracted from work, heh.

Ramanujan

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Q: Unable to access chat

I have changed my parent user to Android enthusiast (before it was mathematics) but still it is showing "your account is suspended on the parent site and cannot chat for 21 days." I am suspended only on mathematics se not others. Then why still on changing parent site to Android enthusiast (not ...

I don't think it is duplicate

0

Q: Unable to access chat

I have changed my parent user to Android enthusiast (before it was mathematics) but still it is showing "your account is suspended on the parent site and cannot chat for 21 days." I am suspended only on mathematics se not others. Then why still on changing parent site to Android enthusiast (not ...

support bug chat

Lol

Some maintenance is going on

Jason C

Yes

Ramanujan

Do you think this is duplicate? I have edited it

Jason C

1:07 AM

@Ramanujan It is a duplicate.

Even though yours is not a feature request it is exactly the same issue.

Ramanujan

I have edited it

Jason C

See Shog's answer on the linked dupe for more info.

When the site's back up, that is.

Ramanujan

But question is different,I read his answer,that was in general answer

Jason C

> why still on changing parent site to Android enthusiast (not suspended site) is showing me suspended and I am not able to chat?

SNAFU

Investigating an issue with our sites

Tweeted by StackStatus on February 28, 2017 at 1:03 AM

Jason C

1:09 AM

No it isn't.

@Ramanujan You asked why the other site is showing you as suspended. Shog's answer tells you exactly why. That's all there is to it. Unfortunately you'll have to wait for the suspension to be up, and then try not to get suspended again.

Ramanujan

:( OK,bye

user315433

Suspensions are a feature of the site, like close votes and downvotes; one shouldn't count on avoiding it.

user315433

There's a Russian proverb on the subject, of which I don't know an English analogue... will look.

user315433

:( searching for it ("от сумы да от тюрьмы не зарекайся" in Russian) brings up a bunch of pages with requests for an English equivalent, but nothing that actually works... the proposed analogues are pretty generic.

Rob

Are you Russian, @zaq?

user315433

1:23 AM

I used to be.

SNAFU

Stack Overflow is currently under attack. Currently working on mitigation. Stand by for updates.

Tweeted by StackStatus on February 28, 2017 at 1:16 AM

user315433

Let's blame Trump.

user315433

And/or Russian hackers.

Rob

Fair enough.. I spent a few years over there :)

SNAFU

Initial mitigations are in place but we're working on the situation.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on February 28, 2017 at 1:26 AM

user315433

1:31 AM

Okay, the best I could find is "Never say never to prison or poverty", although "poverty" is too mild here, the Russian word implies a more extreme state, being homeless and a beggar. Maybe "destitution".

Jason C

@SNAFU Lame.

SNAFU

1:41 AM

Load there was about a half million requests per minute (that actually got through). We're working on blocking compromised webcams now.

Tweeted by Nick_Craver on February 28, 2017 at 1:38 AM in reply to Nick_Craver

user315433

Compromised webcams?

JamesENL

DDOS using IOT Webcams

user315433

FFS

Jason C

Lol

user202362

the eye .. the evil 'eyes', I mean, zombie e-eye

user315433

1:49 AM

There ought to be better ways of using millions of compromised webcams... like setting up an ultimate reality show.

user202362

blackmailing ring

user315433

> @Nick_Craver Meanwhile, in a dark room somewhere... "Dang, the cameras aren't getting through. Send in the IoT toasters now." -- Nathan Osman at 5:42 PM - 27 Feb 2017

user315433

> If you're curious what happens during a Stack Overflow outage, it's this: tons of people hop in a permanent hangout within about 60 seconds. pic.twitter.com/7fUs2Z7OCp -- Nick Craver at 5:53 PM - 27 Feb 2017

user315433

That's Jason Harvey, right? A spartan looking room. What's with all the folding chairs?

Shog9

2:07 AM

I always picture him in a trapper's cabin out on a glacier somewhere, calmly monitoring the breakdown of society.

ɥʇǝS

@zaq Jason Punyon?

user315433

@ɥʇǝS JSONP is not on SRE team

ɥʇǝS

@zaq Ah, good point.

user315433

He should not be so calm if his glacier is about to melt.

user202362

Convicted armed robber scores $9 million in Mosman property sale

SmokeDetector

2:35 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of body: Which is best for video game reviews by Vikas Kumar on gaming.SE

user202362

humanity is fine ... for now - until the fish tank is over populated and we have depleted all the resources needed for escaping, then we will be screwed

Aaron Hall

2:48 AM

webcams?

user315433

Gah, some of these recommendation letter requests come from students I barely know. Or maybe my memory of them is fading... Either way, I could write a far more substantive letter about @bjb568 than about them.

user315433

Also, how's the conference?

user315433

Business schools are the worst, asking me to rate a dozen of vaguely defined and unquantifiable character traits. FR: limit the questionnaire to RPG character parameters: Strength, Dexterity, Charisma, Intelligence, a few more. 0-9 for each.

2

user315433

3:08 AM

> Should not be shown to moderators unless the comment thread attracts more than threshold flags, at which point an automatic flag should be raised on the post. -- meta.stackexchange.com/q/252844

user315433

So, what will happen if I flag 100 comments as NLN every day, and they are under different posts? Will I have a few thousand pending flags?

user315433

Don't know if comment flags age...

user315433

Andy might be in such a situation too, iirc his bot flags as chatty or obsolete.

user315433

Moral: I should try to catch up with him in network-wide flags before this change goes into effect and puts us both out of business.

user202362

you claim that you are teaching business school, and yet you don't know too much about statistics, this is highly suspicious

user202362

3:32 AM

your expertise seems to be about matrix operations, which I learned in uni, but not for my business degrees but for engineering and computer science

user202362

please enlighten me with what maths courses you are teaching in business school, it might broaden my horizon?

bjb568

@zaq Pretty good. Python tutorial interspersed with next-level calculus 11 voodoo.

when your constrained optimization problem is inside a constrained optimization problem

user315433

Isn't it still one optimization problem, only with more variables? Unless the constraint of one problem depends on the solution of the other.

bjb568

I think so.

It's complicated. samsi.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/alen_slides.pdf

There certainly are a lot of symbols.

user315433

3:48 AM

Unclear why the homogeneous Neumann condition (page 3) has kappa in it...

user315433

Fancy A in the optimization problem is never defined...

bjb568

Isn't the kappa just some constant factor?

user315433

Yes, but when equating the thing to zero, the usefulness of said factor is questionable.

bjb568

Oh, the A was explained in the lecture as part of a term "that needs to be there to ensure uniqueness but is complicated so I won't talk to much about it".

user315433

If you want a fancy term for it, it's Tikhonov regularization

user315433

3:59 AM

Informally: have a convex function f that we are trying to minimize, but its bottom may be flat or oddly shaped, so the minimum is either non-unique or unstable under perturbations. So, add a nice quadratic term like a*(x^2+y^2) to it before minimizing; the bottom will be nice and roundish.

user315433

Anyway, the stuff looks heavy for an UG conference...

user315433

4:12 AM

The program tells everyone to install R and R Studio, but then all the demos are in Python.

bjb568

There was R stuff in the morning too.

Jason C

4:40 AM

@zaq Constitution

Is the missing one.

And I guess they should probably ask about your elemental weaknesses. It would be prudent.

user315433

Quick, somebody get Servy and a bunch of others to have a drawn-out debate here. — BoltClock ♦ 2 hours ago

user315433

Flagged as non-constructive, for irony.

user202362

5:05 AM

@YvetteColomb on the way, be there in 5-10 minutes

user202362

She canceled it :p

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in link text in body, pattern-matching website in body: Have you forgotten Yahoo email security question? by andrustross on webapps.SE

user310756

5:21 AM

@Telkitty dam. Don't you making me feel sad. We can go in the mud and rain?

user310756

It will be more pleasant if it's not rainy and you can pat the horses without slipping over @Telkitty

Jason C

feature-request "Ironic" comment flag.

→ 6 messages moved to Chimney

@Undo @ArtOfCode It might be interesting to add some stats to the flagging tab on ms that shows auto flags that would have been cast on sites except there were no participants with flags available, totaled by site. Not specifics necessarily, just counts. That way participants could know what sites they might have to create accounts on.

Assuming there are any.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer: How to record touch gestures in iOS user testing? by Kishan Pankaj on ux.SE

SNAFU

5:45 AM

We are still seeing a large number of malicious requests directed at http://StackOverflow.com but they are currently being blocked by our CDN

Tweeted by StackStatus on February 28, 2017 at 5:39 AM

Undo

@JasonC Pretty sure we don't have any of those

Even early on, when it was just Art and I, we had plenty of flags available

Jason C

@Undo Word. On every site smokey is active on?

Undo

Spam tends to be concentrated in relatively few sites. Charcoal people tend to have accounts on those sites.

10 flags per person per site adds up fast

Jason C

Do you know what else Charcoal people tend to have accounts on?

YO MOMMA

Undo

heh

Jason C

5:52 AM

I don't know why you bring that out in me.

TylerH

6:08 AM

I received an email from a user @stackoverflow.com email address claiming to be a product manager talking about a research opportunity. But this person does not appear on the Stack Overflow Team page anywhere. Is it legit?

Jason C

Doesn't sound legit.

@TylerH You might want to report it over at stackoverflow.com/contact, and include the email and its headers.

SmokeDetector

6:25 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer: How to control the volume of an android device from a pc by Mike Dollas on android.SE

TylerH

@JasonC I'm considering it. The only things that seem legit are the @stackoverflow.com address (though I know that can be spoofed; I've received spam email from my own address before), and the fact they reference that I took place in the survey and that I indicated I'd be interested. Plus their LinkedIn profile and Twitter profile indicate they work for SO

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer: Is there any efficient treatment of Tinnitus (Ear ringing)? by kate on health.SE

Jason C

@TylerH Doesn't hurt to ask support to verify regardless. They'll be able to tell you if it's legit or not. And even if it is legit, the feedback is probably also useful, it shows that recipients thihk it's spammy and maybe they should try a different tactic or reword the email.

TylerH

yeah

maybe also will serve as a prod to make sure people sending out email on their behalf are on their team page

Jason C

That too.

@SmokeDetector Lol

That kind of spam cracks me up.

FIRES UP GMAIL, EMAILS DR WILLIAMS IMMEDIATELY