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bummi

12:01 AM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/27193302/1699210

bjb568

12:12 AM

Anybody for raising the upvote threshold to 300 rep?

ɥʇǝS

nope.

Braiam

first we had turtles, then puppies, then cats, but nobody could have imagined that the latest thing will be goats:

►

bjb568

Mooseman is eating pizza

@bummi One more...

bummi

@Moosemaniseatingpizza thx

bjb568

12:40 AM

DV stackoverflow.com/q/27516540/2371861

(and CV if you want)

Mooseman is eating pizza

12:54 AM

cv-pls stackoverflow.com/q/27193302/1234256

bjb568

REPOST

Hobo Sapiens

1:05 AM

cv-pls Off topic: stackoverflow.com/q/27516583/1864610

bummi

mhhhmmm ... I did like the info showing the different close reasons by user more info

Shog9

Goat Simulator

Goat Simulator is a third-person perspective simulation video game developed by Coffee Stain Studios. It was released for Microsoft Windows via Steam on 1 April 2014, and ports for Mac OS X and Linux were released on 27 June 2014. Versions for iOS and Android were released on 17 September 2014. A version for Xbox One co-developed by Double Eleven (responsible for LittleBigPlanet PS Vita) is also in progress. The game has been compared by the developer as akin to skateboarding games, but where the player controls a goat aimed at doing as much damage as possible around an open-world map, without...

hichris123

1564

Q: Proper use cases for Android UserManager.isUserAGoat()?

I was looking at the new APIs introduced in Android 4.2. While looking at the UserManager class I came across the following method: public boolean isUserAGoat () Used to determine whether the user making this call is subject to teleportations. Returns whether the user making this ...

I've been feeding the Roomba recently, and it had me wondering: how many questions does the Roomba delete per... say week that had been ineligible and became eligible (because of a downvote, deleted answer, deleted comment, etc.)?

@Shog9?

user259867

1:20 AM

@hichris123 Depends on how much time I have.

hichris123

lol'

@Behaviour Go downvote stackoverflow.com/…, then!

Andrew T.

how does Community user upvote a post? I know it downvote thru spam/offensive flag.

user259867

Actually I don't spend that much time on SO recently, so... not likely.

user259867

@AndrewT. When a very active user is deleted, SE sometimes keeps the votes by transferring them to Community.

Andrew T.

@Behaviour ah, I see, thanks. I have to tell someone on meta.ja.so that it doesn't only downvote posts (FAQ about Community user)

Sompuperoo

1:28 AM

@hichris123 probalby not an actual answer to your question but maybe some info is here meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/262077/…

hichris123

@Sompuperoo Some, yes, but not in terms of the current Roomba stats, IIRC.

Shog9

@hichris123 3

(Educated guess)

user259867

The whole Roomba-feeding thing would not be a thing if one vote did not make such huge difference in the fate of a question.
Closed, no answer, 0 => have 9 days to live.
Closed, no answer, +1 => lives forever

user259867

If it was a sliding scale, with each closed question allotted some time based on its score (100 days per vote maybe), nobody would care to feed the Roomba.

hichris123

@Shog9 Of course! Because three... is a magic number!

Shog9

1:38 AM

@hichris123 sure, why not

hichris123

You're particularly helpful today, @Shog9. ;)

Shog9

can't wait for February

user259867

s/helpful/busy hunting for hats/

hichris123

@Behaviour You should propose that on the mSO question.

@Shog9 Okay, I'll bite: February?

Shog9

In February I get to look forward to March

3ventic

1:44 AM

3 is the best number

user259867

I think MichaelT proposed something to this effect there, so I did not want to duplicate. One probably has to consider the views and so on... although the views can be harmful views: where someone looks for an answer to their question, and finds it closed with a message about how it's not a real question, and with no information given. Back to Google, -1 to SO search rating, -10 to SO image.

hichris123

I'm not going to try to understand Shog logic.

Shog9

So, yeah - I really don't think we need to care about the score or the views of closed questions after some time period

If something has no answers and sits closed for a while, who cares what the score is? No one can answer it, it's less work to just re-ask it, get rid of it.

user259867

Sometimes there's a comment, though. "No, there is no API for Google Keep".

Shog9

So predicate deletion on the absence of comments then.

user259867

1:47 AM

Then nothing gets deleted because every closed post has some snarky comments under it.

Shog9

Or just hope deleting it prompts someone to re-ask the question so someone can post that as a damn answer

hichris123

@Shog9 Yeah, pretty much that. In all the questions I've looked at to feed the roomba, I've found some helpful comments, but no action has been taken in 1+ years, so it really doesn't matter.

52

Q: Test NEON-optimized cv::threshold() on mobile device

I have been writing some optimizations for the OpenCV's threshold function, for ARM devices (mobile phones). It should be working on both Android and iPhone. However, I do not have a device to test it on, so I am looking for volunteers to give me a little help. If that motivates you more, I am p...

android optimization opencv arm neon

user259867

@hichris123 Are you really sure you were not borderline to begin with?

hichris123

^ That's an even worse example... "I am looking for volunteers to give me a little help."

@Behaviour huh?

user259867

@hichris123 that quote

hichris123

1:51 AM

@Behaviour oh. Well, I consider myself a biased judge, and it's a subjective question, sooo... shrugs. Probably not. Maybe.

Shog9

126

Q: How to do authentication with a REST API right? (Browser + Native clients)

I'm building a web application using Rails. At the moment I'm using Devise with HTTP sessions which was pretty easy to set up and it's working well. The application consists of one URL providing an AJAX web application. The rest of the URLs available belong to the REST API. So everything and eve...

http session rest authentication stateless

user259867

Yes, I saw that a few times (in less extreme form): answers edited into a question, because of some silly restriction on posting own answer for N hours. Then the question got mod-closed as "not a real question". Naturally, I did not Roomba-feed those, but who knows how many vanished because they had the score of 0.

Shog9

yeah, I'm converting a few of these into proper Q&A

106

Q: Warning the user/local/mysql/data directory is not owned by the mysql user

I can't start the mysql service in Snow Leopard, and in the panel prefs appears the message, warning the user/local/mysql/data directory is not owned by the mysql user How can I fix this?

mysql osx

0

A: Server 2012 IIS 8 MVC app shows default IIS home page or 403 / 404 errors

I spent 2 days trying to find a solution to this, and finally did. Wanted to share with the community in case it helps anyone else. All the articles and forum messages I ran across on the Internet started to mirror each other in one form or another. One solution talked about making sure you ha...

user259867

You deserve a secret hat for that.

hichris123

@Behaviour We need a Shog hat.

Shog9

2:06 AM

I wear many hats already

ɥʇǝS

COLLECT ALL THE FLOATING HEADS!

user259867

^ Should be used for Winter Bash 2015.

user259867

I think it's sufficiently distinctive to be recognized.

Shog9

2:23 AM

@Behaviour FWIW, we dropped that restriction recently, along with beefing up the warning message that shows up when you try to self-answer. That was always a bit of a knee-jerk reaction to folks posting comments as answers, which are now handled fairly easily by LQ review.

hichris123

Reopen? stackoverflow.com/questions/10992595/…

reopen-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/20292692/…

delv-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/8380256/…

user259867

@hichris123 Maybe it can be migrated somewhere? So much interest in the puzzle.

user259867

Ah, 2011. Probably not.

hichris123

@Behaviour lol. Has it been cross-posted on PPCG yet?

nope

user259867

I imagine one bloodless solution is to post it there, and link from here. Only question is whether it actually is on topic at PPCG. Maybe @Doorknob冰 can tell.

hichris123

2:38 AM

@Shog9 Mind doing this one too? stackoverflow.com/questions/11934904/…

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 53.2152: Before Christmas day we can give you more fifa coins! on gaming.stackexchange.com

Shog9

@hichris123 ok

hichris123

Surprised this never got reopened: stackoverflow.com/posts/17035518/revisions

@Shog9 Thanks!

Doorknob 冰

@Behaviour Wouldn't be on-topic as it stands. No objective winning criterion.

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 77.1449: i can't install sharepoint server 2013 in my computer on sharepoint.stackexchange.com

Doorknob 冰

cv-plz typo stackoverflow.com/q/27517587/1223693

cv-plz tool rec stackoverflow.com/q/27517606/1223693

user259867

3:00 AM

SEDE data was updated one hour ago? (Looks at the calendar, not weekend). What is going on?

Shog9

and my work here tonight has earned me Timelord. Excellent.

8

bjb568

You hat whore!

Doorknob 冰

Oh, @Shog9, speaking of hats, I still don't have my lightbulb. Y u no give?! :P

bjb568

0

A: Display statistics for question and answer referrals

http://jsfiddle.net/bbwqzmmo/1/ A progress indicator, less sucky than those in review.

Do you think sqrt works well there?

hichris123

@Doorknob冰 ... you know he's just going to give another hat to someone else now, right? ;)

@Shog9 Well, I mean we did force you to do some work.... so it's a win-win.

@Behaviour hmm, does it make queries faster?

Yes! It does.

user259867

3:15 AM

@hichris123 Don't know about faster, but I was very surprised that a query I wrote a few minutes ago suddenly returned today's result. Did they upgrade something?

hichris123

Whatever happened, I'm thanking @TimStone. Even though it probably wasn't his doing. But I've blamed him enough.

@Behaviour shrugs Something happened.

Tab management on a laptop is hard. :/

Yi Jiang

5

Thank you my Stack Exchange overlords for including at least one food based hat this year so I can do this again

hichris123

Okay, not as fast as I though, but still faster.

wait, no. oops.

Shog9

@Behaviour thank jmac & craver - JASO needed some public data.

Doorknob 冰

cv-plz typo stackoverflow.com/q/27517845/1223693

@hichris123 ... don't you dare @Shog9. watches as @hichris123 suddenly gets all hats

user259867

3:30 AM

Ah. I briefly dreamed of a world where SEDE updates daily. What a strange, wonderful world that would be.

bjb568

Y WAFFLE SOOO BIG

Shog9

to make room for the frozen strawberries & whipped cream

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: NETGEAR WN1000RP WIFI EXTENDER CONFIGURE? by OutLawBiker on superuser.com

Unihedro

3:48 AM

-3

A: CSS square brackets selector for classes

The brackets are used so that Yahoo webmail doesn't apply your mobile styling to desktop breakpoints. I'm not certain of the details but hopefully that gives you enough to look into it more.

^^ needs care

user259867

JASO is such a neat abbreviation for a site. Compared to "PTSO" which is usually pt.SO, and not pronounceable anyway.

Andrew T.

ja.so

user259867

mi.so

hichris123

@Doorknob冰 I was referring to this:

yesterday, by Tim Stone

You should give someone else the hat just to mess with @hichris123.

reopen-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/20292692/…

reopen-plz stackoverflow.com/questions/17035518/…

Thoughts on stackoverflow.com/questions/10992595/…, iOS people?

Doorknob 冰

4:12 AM

Ahaha, @JonSkeet's hat fits perfectly.

Jon Skeet, Reading, United Kingdom

735k 318 4860 6196

c# java .net linq generics asp.net xml

Unihedro

Where?

Andrew T.

too.. many.. golds!

ɥʇǝS

@ɥʇǝS I think I have your lightbulb. I commented on Abby's post seconds after you posted your answer here and got both Hairboat and Eureka shortly after. If I could give it up I would. — RubberDuck 5 mins ago

@RubberDuck That's odd, I posted my comment 26 minutes before you posted yours, it took me that long to get the hat, realize what happened and post the answer... Odd :/ — ɥʇǝS 14 secs ago

:(

Unihedro

BadgesOverflow

bjb568

@Doorknob冰 Only 8 hats?

Andy

4:16 AM

@bjb568 735K rep. I think it comes out evenly

Andrew T.

@hichris123 I think it's still unclear... well, at least for me. Does he need to open Google Map? Or is it embedded Google Map? Based on Google's doc, I think it's still possible, but using Google's own SDK, not MKMapView... is it the answer that he wants? (not iOS developer, only avid Google Search user)

it seems I was just repeating this comment, basically

Man what is the deal with closing perfectly reasonable questions? This is why Quora has a chance. Google has just recently released an SDK to allow developers to utilize their maps. You need to register for a key however, and they are rolling out these somewhat slowly it seems. — Stunner Dec 25 '12 at 7:24

JASO has killed "interesting easter egg", but still accepting recommendation questions.

I think it'd be rough journey for JASO to establish the site, userbase, and its rules...

Unihedro

4:35 AM

Discussion on answer by Martijn Piete…

Imported from a comment discussion on meta.stackoverflow.com/q...

Today's debate: "Should comments saying "google it." be flagged?"

Bye!

bjb568

LPT: Use screen sharing. The native app. On mac. SO GOOD! Join.me sux.

Night!

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] URL in title: To Staff: Requesting merge with christianity.stackexchange.com/users/17561/31415926 by 31415926 on christianity.stackexchange.com

ɥʇǝS

@Shog9 --^

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 84.2298: Web Part Error: Access Denied on sharepoint.stackexchange.com

ɥʇǝS

aha! I got my eureka.

Apparently it isn't manually awarded.

Or someone from SE is trolling me >.>

user259867

4:42 AM

@ɥʇǝS It's the latter one.

ɥʇǝS

An employee is trolling me?

user259867

Someone runs a search on chat transcripts once in a while, I presume.

ɥʇǝS

hmm.. what makes you think that @Behaviour?

user259867

How else would they do it? They are not in all chat rooms at all times.

user259867

I got Eureka some hours after discussing Chameleon in chat, iirc.

ɥʇǝS

4:44 AM

oh really? hm, that's odd, but a script could check chat just as well as main.

Still, perhaps you are right.

user259867

Last year it was manual. And Shog9 implied it's the same this year in a conversation with hichris.

user259867

yesterday, by Shog9

Especially since that's been documented for like 2 years now.

ɥʇǝS

hmm, ok then :)

Andrew T.

5:24 AM

no happy hour? surprised

DroidDev

Yo!

user259867

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/141008/…

user259867

Gah, clueless Drupal users closing spam with custom reason

Andrew T.

regret I spoke too soon

DroidDev

omfg

user259867

5:27 AM

@AndrewT. I looked at Drupal because you reminded me... and there it was. It's an hour old spam.

DroidDev

are they nuts?!

one hour! come'on!!!

user259867

No, just uneducated in SE ways.

DroidDev

hmm...we need someone on their meta

Andrew T.

The happy hour is always happen on my lunchtime ~~while I am enjoying drama on MSO~~

user259867

Dec 4 at 19:51, by Arthur Fischer

@WarmFuzzies Er... what is this common goal you speak of? Some users flag spam as spam. Some users flag spam for moderator attention. Some users simply downvote spam. Some users vote to close spam. And yet another group ignores the spam and trudges on to the next question.

DroidDev

5:29 AM

its been 2^1024 years, since I went to MSO, other then the links posted here...

Andrew T.

Next time, there should be an SE blog post only for handling spam, and it'll be always featured.

DaemonOfTheWest

is this room for goofing off?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: CANT LOGG BACK IN MY UNITY DESKTOP AFTER GOING BACK TO CHROME OS by [TENCHIMUYOGXP ](askubuntu.com/users/359095/tenchimuyogxp) on askubuntu.com

DroidDev

@DaemonOfTheWest no, any problem related to any site of SE, you can talk about it here, until there is no problem, you can goof around ;)

Andrew T.

@SmokeDetector borken markdown

I just realized hats on smaller avatar on chat sometimes bork

@SmokeDetector space in the end of username

user259867

5:45 AM

Interesting. A username can contain a trailing space. Hmmm, how to exploit this?

Jan Dvorak

6:05 AM

WAT stackoverflow.com/review/low-quality-posts/6506254

Andrew T.

the question is WAT too

in the meantime, reject-plzhttp://stackoverflow.com/review/suggested-edits/6506189

user259867

6:30 AM

1

A: Hatless in Sea-hat-le

Hats. Hats hats hats. Hats hats hats, hats hats hats hats hats. Hats hats: Hats hats hats (hats; hats hats) Hats Hats hats – hats hats hats. Hats.

user259867

VLQ?

Sompuperoo

What the heck is a tardis hat? I don't see it anywhere? i just see people mentioning it somewhere sometimes in chat/comment

is it some joke?

user259867

Because it is date specific?

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 83.0803: Need to recover partitions on superuser.com

DroidDev

Beware of the extra '.' you need to use for git add -A. See my answer below — VonC Apr 23 '13 at 6:33

not constructive?

Jan Dvorak

6:37 AM

@DroidDev why?

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 65.3066: Selected Excel File opens in Mac Excel-VBA on stackoverflow.com

DroidDev

cv-plz "why isn't this code working?" stackoverflow.com/q/27519639/2389078

Sompuperoo

@Behaviour what's the hat for?

DroidDev

@JanDvorak I was asking, that is it "not constructive", because, it doesn't add anything or ask, the user is just asking to see his answer below.

Jan Dvorak

It says "Beware of the extra '.' you need to use for git add -A."

DroidDev

6:39 AM

but, that just looks like excuse to "see my answer below"

Jan Dvorak

but is it?

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] Bad keywords in title: MEGAVIDEO]> "The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1~ Online Video Free _ Movie 2014 by longli on stackoverflow.com

hichris123

[ SmokeDetector ] Score of 61.6741: MEGAVIDEO]> "The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1~ Online Video Free _ Movie 2014 on stackoverflow.com

Sompuperoo

@SmokeDetector tpu

SmokeDetector

@Sompuperoo Registered as true positive: added title to Bayesian doctype 'bad' and blacklisted user.

Sompuperoo

6:41 AM

SPAM ^

Andrew T.

make it abusive before there is a link

now... SPAM!

DroidDev

An answer worth reading

Though I don't usually read long posts, but, this one, I read it all...

Andrew T.

yup, already read all of the answers.

DroidDev

ALL!!

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: FINDING THE ANSWER by jlucia on physics.stackexchange.com

Sompuperoo

6:52 AM

@Behaviour oh, tardis is Time Lord hat... a tardis is from doctor who , ugh..

user259867

@DroidDev tl;dr Roomba-feed all the things

SmokeDetector

7:08 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: DOES BURNING VEGETABLE OIL EFFECT ENVIRONMENT? by user3328945 on stackoverflow.com

Andrew T.

^ WAT

Sompuperoo

y no option to flag as vlq?

DroidDev

@Behaviour just remove the link from that comment and your comment will be hilarious... lol...

oh! you already edited it...

user259867

I'm all about helping slow beta sites. They don't get their share of all-caps posts.

DroidDev

Awww.....

SmokeDetector

7:29 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SETTING UP A WINDOWS SERVER DOMAIN NETWORK AND REGISTERATION by HumbleDami on serverfault.com

DroidDev

renewal tag, with no summary and 32 questions...

Andrew T.

congratulation for the added tags.... facepalm

and it's still not closed :(

DroidDev

I wish it was on MSO/MSE, we would be having lot of fun in comments then...

Sompuperoo

out of cv's srry

i did low quality flag though

3 upvotes in 4 views - 1 google probabyl, suspicious? stackoverflow.com/q/27519929/3041194

could just be people voting for hats though

balpha

@MartijnPieters @Mysticial Fixed. I also think I've found the bug causing this.

Sompuperoo

7:41 AM

Everything you do affect environment in a way... This questions would be off topic anywhere. — Р̀СТȢѸ́ФХѾЦЧШЩЪЫЬѢѤЮѦѪѨѬѠѺѮѰѲѴ 2 mins ago

just like seeing that user and his disregard for realizing that space is a finite resource, or is it?

DroidDev

...on the other hand, those characters might actually mean something O_o

Sompuperoo

@DroidDev Google Translate detects it as Belarusian, in English it is RSTȢѸFHѾTSCHSHSCHYѢѤYUѦѪѨѬѠѺѮѰѲѴ

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: SETTING UP A WINDOWS SERVER DOMAIN NETWORK AND REGISTERATION by echoYoungMan on serverfault.com

Mysticial

@balpha Thanks! Is the bug interesting enough to tell?

Sompuperoo

@DroidDev Google Translate detects it as Belarusian, in English it is RSTȢѸFHѾTSCHSHSCHYѢѤYUѦѪѨѬѠѺѮѰѲѴ

DroidDev

7:45 AM

...maybe some ancient language, the user might be actual Baba Ji... :/

Sompuperoo

Or maybe his username is written in 12 different languages.

should I edit man boobs to the correct technical term of "moobs"?

SPAM meta.stackexchange.com/questions/245522/…

user259867

too late to edit :)

user259867

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/141024/…

user259867

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/141025/…

user259867

SPAM drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/141019/…

user259867

7:50 AM

^ the last one is of a different kind

Andrew T.

1nd & 2st drupal gone

user259867

Drupal still has Meta question "do we want hats" featured. sigh

Andrew T.

[featured] can be removed and [status-completed] added, since the Dec 1 deadline has passed. — Doorknob 冰 Dec 3 at 1:10

SmokeDetector

8:07 AM

[ SmokeDetector ] All-caps title: AN INTERESTING AREAS QUESTION by user160431 on math.stackexchange.com

ProgramFOX

Morning!

user259867

@SmokeDetector NSFW, probably

ProgramFOX

@Behaviour No, it's SFW.

user259867

Lame joke. "Interesting areas".

ProgramFOX

ah

lol

user259867

8:23 AM

@Pham Read any good spam lately?

Pham

@Behaviour Nope, but first. I... must... get... coffee!

ProgramFOX

>>coffee

Sam

Not a command, yet ;)

ProgramFOX

:D

Pham

Spam Q (90.9%): prestigious battle for many who have, by hoima, on askubuntu.com.

Sam

8:35 AM

Gone.

Patrick Hofman

@ProgramFOX Yes please!

ProgramFOX

                        (
                          )     (
                   ___...(-------)-....___
               .-""       )    (          ""-.
         .-'``'|-._             )         _.-|
        /  .--.|   `""---...........---""`   |
       /  /    |                             |
       |  |    |                             |
        \  \   |                             |
         `\ `\ |                             |
           `\ `|                             |
           _/ /\                             /

Unihedro

-1 looks detached on mobile

ProgramFOX

Then... don't use mobile :P

Braiam

why the pointless line breaks at the start?

ProgramFOX

8:42 AM

@Braiam Oh, that's probably because I copied it from a previous message. That probably added some whitespace.

Unihedro

Lifehacks is 100% answered!!!

user259867

With baby wipes, duct tape and WD-40.

DroidDev

hey @Unihedro I can't find hacker news theme link for firefox. Any help?

Braiam

@Behaviour is there another way?

DroidDev

@ProgramFOX ya, they radiate!

Unihedro

8:45 AM

@Droid what's that ?

DroidDev

@Unihedro the theme with inverted colors

which one are you using for your firefox?

ProgramFOX

@DroidDev Uni doesn't use Firefox, and he uses a color-inversion CSS.

Unihedro

Hacker Vision is a chrome plugin, the firefox equilivient is called Illuminator?

DroidDev

@ProgramFOX oh!

@Unihedro ok, thanks

Unihedro

I don't know, but you can make-do with a simple userstyle

s,simple,ugly hack

DroidDev

8:47 AM

@Unihedro never played with scripts...

Patrick Hofman

@ProgramFOX Wonderful. Just what I needed.

@Unihedro Coffee and mobiles don't go well.

Pham

Bad Tag(s) Used: [crash] | Random crash on android, by Yossi Beck, on stackoverflow.com.

Sam

^ cv-plz

user259867

11

Q: Insights: How we evaluate a private beta

If you haven't read, we are extending this private beta another week to see where this site is headed. During last week's evaluation, I shared some thoughts (internally) with the Community Team about what to look for going forward. I thought that perhaps sharing this guidance with you (publicly...