The badges, curious, inquisitive and socratic are described as:     Ask a good question on N separate days, and maintain a positive question record   However the term good question is not explained. From my account at least it doesn't refer to the good question badge:      Question score of 25 or more   I think these badges' description should be clarified, probably to something like:     Ask a question on N separate days with a score of one or more, and maintain a positive question record
A couple of months ago, I suggested a set of badges for . The responses were... mixed. The  can be summarized:  In practice, all this would do is encourage people to ask yet more stupid, worthless questions and we have quite enough of that as it is.  We believe that one of the main things holding back many of our beta sites is that when people have questions they aren't in the habit of asking on the site. Even our flagship site, Stack Overflow, doesn't get many questions from its most knowledgeable users. Perhaps they don't have questions, but far more likely they find answers without needing to ask. Our subtle bias against asking (questions =&gt; clueless) means we lose out on what might be our best source of excellent questions. So we went back to the drawing board and designed a badge set that should not encourage worthless questions:  Asked a well-received question on X separate days, and maintained a positive question record.  In order to award badges, we need to define our terms:  positive question record   (total questions - negative questions - closed - deleted)/total questions &gt;= 0.5  It triple counts a question that is downvoted, closed, and deleted. If you ask one that hits that trifecta, you'll need to ask three better questions to dig yourself out. My own record of asking does not meet the criteria:   (44 - 0 - 12 - 12)/44 = 0.4545...  My  looks a lot better; I had a bunch of questions from the beta period that have been subsequently (and rightfully) deleted. With care, I could bring my record into positive territory with 4 questions. The takeaway is that people can't sweep past indiscretions under the rug by deleting them. And they can recover from a bad start as long as they don't ask more bad questions.  well-received question on X separate days A well-received question is one that's open, not deleted, and has a score &gt; 0. If you ask at least one well-received question in a  and none of your questions that day are deleted, downvoted, or closed, you get one more day of credit toward the badge. Whenever the badge criteria is checked, previous asking days are re-evaluated so that there's an incentive to fix downvoted and/or closed questions. The no-deleted-questions criteria is to prevent people from asking several questions at once and deleting any that aren't upvoted or answered to ask another day. (Though this is a losing strategy in the long run.)   My proposed badge names and levels:  Asked a well-received question on 5 separate days, and maintained a positive question record.  Asked a well-received question on 30 separate days, and maintained a positive question record.  Asked a well-received question on 100 separate days, and maintained a positive question record. In addition, since some outstanding individuals ask on more than 100 days, the gold badge may be awarded multiple times. Over on English, Oishi-sama (now a ) would have a remarkable . Bronze and silver badges are only awarded once. We've decided to hold off on multiple awards for now. See the . Neither the names nor the levels nor even the descriptions are set in stone. Please play around with  to get an idea of how the badge works using our public data. Since the query does not account for deleted questions, it's a bit more generous than the actual badges would be. This version of the badge set should encourage a habit of well-received questions over time and encourage people to fix poorly received questions.  I'd like to express my gratitude to the Parenting community for participating in our .
How to assign symbols to functions What if residuals are normally distributed, but y is not? This is an exercise in some textbooks.     Let $E$ be an algebraic extension of $F$. Suppose $R$ is ring that contains $F$ and is contained in $E$. Prove that $R$ is a field.   The trouble is really with the inverse of $r$, where $r\in R$. How to prove that $r^{-1}\in R$, in apparent lack of a characterization of $R$.  It occurred to me to use the smallest field containing $R$ ($R$ is easily shown to be an integral domain), that's the field of quotients, and proving that it's $R$ itself, but I don't really know how to proceed.  A not-too-weak, not-too-strong hint will be much appreciated.   Beware $ $ Readers seeking only hints should  beware that there is now a complete answer. How to type "ç" when using USA intl as the keyboard layout? I asked  but I can't make that solutions work on Unity. I want to use the keys ´ followed by c and the output should be "ç". It works that way in Windows out of the box, and it did work in Ubuntu 10.10 following the solutions given in the question above. But in 11.04 it outputs "ć". How to change that? When you earn one tag badge, and then don't click "Track the next one" in the tag badge progress tracking box for a while, and then earn a second tag badge, that box continues to show "Congratulations, you earned [the same badge as before]", rather than updating to show that you've actually earned another tag badge since then.  For instance, right now  looks like this:    Even though I  a few weeks ago and then  yesterday, my profile hasn't updated to show the new achievement.  I also didn't get the "cipher" tag badge until after the 3am watershed, even though tag badges usually appear as soon as I visit my profile after earning them (for instance, I earned the "tags" tag badge on meta.SFF.SE today the very instant I clicked on my own profile there after having become eligible for the badge). Even when I went to look at the list of my progress towards different tag badges on Puzzling, which I thought would jog the system into realising I'd actually earned the badge, "cipher" still showed up as 99/100 score even after I'd gone well past 100, until last night when the badge was finally awarded and "cipher" disappeared from my list of badges to track.  TL;DR: if I don't click "Track the next one", my tag badges update slower than they should.  It's a very unimportant bug, but there must be more people than just me who like to see the "Congratulations" thing there for a while and rest on their laurels before moving on to track their progress towards the next milestone. Making yogurt at home is a fairly straight-forward process.  Heat milk to 180F (82C), cool that milk to at least 110F (43C), add live cultures, usually in the form of yogurt with said cultures, incubate, then chill.   There are several variables in the process, some of which are: The fat content of the milk (I typically use whole), how long to hold the milk during the initial heat step, how long it takes to cool the milk, the temperature of the incubation step, and the length of time for incubation, to name a few.  While length of time for incubation, and temperature at this stage, clearly contribute to sourness, I am trying to nail down the variable that contributes to a creamy texture.  I'm not referring to breaking or clumping, as described in .  My yogurt comes out smooth.    My initial hypothesis is that holding the milk for a length of time at the initial 180F(82C) (rather than immediately removing from heat and/or chilling) has an impact on final texture. Any thoughts or experience that might inform my hypothesis? Possible Duplicate:          This is a line spoken by the . I always wondered if this is grammatically correct.  Luke says something like "You are mistaken ..." which the Emperor answers with     No, it is you who are mistaken!   Why wouldn't he say     No, it is you who is mistaken!   instead?  I don't know what rules apply here but my stomach tells me the latter is (at least also) correct, although you would say "you are mistaken". It feels as if he should be referring to "you" in the third person.  Could you please shed some light? Are both correct or – if not – which one is correct? And why? I have a featureclass in an Esri file geodatabase. When I edit the features using the editor in ArcMap, and I delete most of my features and keeping only the ones in the middle, the zoom to layer command doesn't work as expected. Instead of zooming to the extent of the features remaining in the feature class, the extent will be the former one (containing all deleted features). When reviewing the extent values in the properties dialog for the feature class, I can clearly see the old values. So the edit session doesn't seem to alter the full extent values.  Is there a way to recalculate these values?  I am pretty sure that this problem should occur to everyone editing features in ArcMap... Evaluating $\int P(\sin x, \cos x) \text{d}x$ Suppose $\displaystyle P(x,y)$ a polynomial in the variables $x,y$.   For example, $\displaystyle x^4$ or $\displaystyle x^3y^2 + 3xy + 1$.  Is there a general method which allows us to evaluate the indefinite integral     $$ \int P(\sin x, \cos x) \text{d} x$$   What about the case when $\displaystyle P(x,y)$ is a rational function (i.e. a ratio of two polynomials)?   Example of a rational function: $\displaystyle \frac{x^2y + y^3}{x+y}$.    This is being asked in an effort to cut down on duplicates, see here:   and here: Why did the TIE fighter in The Force Awakens have life support? In setting up dual Boot with Windows and Ubuntu, which OS do I install first? I'd like to install both Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows XP on a Dell laptop, and I was thinking about using a dual boot structure, and using the bulk of my hard drive as empty hard drive space to share files between the two operating systems (so choice of file system type is very important in this set-up).     The kind of partitioning structure I would like to use is  Partition 1 - Ubuntu 12.04 (root) (20GB)  Partition 2 - Ubuntu /home        (20GB)  Partition 3 : Free Space          (560GB)  Partition 4 : Windows XP          (35GB)  Partition 5 : SWAP                (3GB)  (Total Hardrive Capacity is ~640GB)    My question is; what is the best way to go about setting up this kind this system?   Should I install Windows XP first and setup the partitions, and then install Ubuntu which I believe will install the GRUB bootloader for OS booting choice   or   Do I install Ubuntu first, setting up the available partitions and then perform a WIndows install?  Please let me know if there is anything in this setup that I have left out and should know about, including things related to setting particular partitions as logical or primary, and whether the boot partition and the filesystem partition should actually be two separate partitions. I can't (vote to) close a question I voted to close before but then retracted? For example...  I closed a vote for 'too broad'. But then I realized I wanted to close it as a specific duplicate of another question instead. So I retracted my close vote.  That worked. But I can't now vote to close as duplicate and the title says I already voted to close.  Maybe this is intentional but it doesn't feel that way. One thing I've noticed about the relatively new sitewide layout is that I can't find a quick way to get back to www.stackexchange.com without finding StackExchange in the sites list. As a result, I am typing stackexchange in my toolbar a whole lot more often now. In particular, I tend to enjoy browsing the hot questions list and my own personal feed quite often so visit these pages on a daily basis. Is there an easy link to them that I'm missing?  (On the android app, there is a feed in the menu that I really appreciate, something like that on the desktop would be ideal!) bash: ./program: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error In the experiments for photoelectric emission, the light is incident on one face of the emitting plate, for example the anode, when determining the stopping potential. The electrons are emitted by this face of the plate. Why are the electrons emitted in the direction of the incident light, and not opposite to it?  I have read a little about photons (the key words being, a little), and from what i gather, they have an intrinsic momentum $p=h/\lambda$, which is transferred entirely to the particle that absorbs it (along with the energy $h\nu$). This should imply that the electrons try to move further into the cathode, and not escape it! What is the fault in the reasoning?  Thanks! How do I install the latest Python 2.7.X or 3.X on Ubuntu? I want to install the latest Python tarball on Ubuntu, downloaded from .  Is this is a correct way to install?  ./configure make make install   If not, how do I do that? Create custom fields with apex Anybody knows how to create custom text fields on salesforce.com objects using apex? How to delete a file with a weird name? I wrote a program that uses POSIX memory-mapping function (mmap)  The program takes a file (a.dat) and memory-maps it for reading/writing.  Due to errors in the program, every time I run the program a file with some weird names (e.g., ?d?P?^z??d?P?^z?) is created. The error is resolved but I am not able to delete the files.  I am not able to delete it either using command line or by select/deleting from window manager.  So how should I delete it? I'm using Ubuntu 11.04. Stack Overflow as a reference in a professional paper/presentation Suppose I'm doing an academic paper, journal article, or other professional presentation.  Would you say that it would be possible to use Stack Overflow as a reference?    Of course I'm pretty sure that the answer here would be "yes."   So here's the follow up: When, if ever, would it be a good idea to cite a Stack Overflow question as a reference in an professional paper/presentation of some kind? How to determine the architecture of an installation or Live CD/DVD? How can I determine which architecture (x86 or x64) my Ubuntu installation medium is for?  I don't have it installed, I just need to know which files on the installation media I can use to determine the architecture.