I've just realised that the Quorum badge does not show up in "Choose which badge to track",    in any of the three cases:   You have made no progress at all; You have a Meta quetion with one vote (50% progress) You have been awarded it.     Is there any design reason for this?    Note that this question seems to me to be different from .
The  badge seems like a great candidate for a trackable badge: it requires doing a thing multiple times, there aren't any other requirements to get it, and it is (seems?) quite easy to determine how many times the thing has been done.  But Convention does not appear in the list of badges that can be tracked. I would like to be able to see a quick count of my well-received meta posts without going to my meta user activity page and poking around.
Remove subscribers from Auto Suppression List How to prove $|a^k|=n/\gcd(n,k)$ whenever $|a|=n$? Prove Lipschitz function $f$ with constant $K$ is integrable on $[0, 1].$ We suppose that $f : [0, 1] \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is a Lipschitz function with constant $K$. We want to show that $f$ is integrable on $[0, 1].$  I've been trying to use the Darboux criterion of integrability by trying to show that, for $\epsilon &gt; 0$, $$S^*(f,P) - S_*(f, P) &lt; \epsilon,$$ where $S^*(f, P)$ and $S_*(f, P)$ are the Upper and Lower Riemann Sums, respectively.  This is what I have so far: $$\sum_{i=1}^n M_i (x_i - x_{i-1})- \sum_{i=1}^n m_i (x_i - x_{i-1}) = \sum_{i=1}^n (M_i - m_i) (x_i - x_{i-1})$$ $$\le \sum_{i=1}^n K (x_i - x_{i-1}).$$ because $|f(x) - f(u)| \le K|x-u| \le K |1|$, since $x\in [0, 1]$. Then, $$\sum_{i=1}^n K (x_i - x_{i-1}) = K.$$ However, this is only a single upper bound, not an arbitrary $\epsilon.$ Can I get some pointers about how to proceed? Thanks! Cut part from video file from start position to end position with FFmpeg I have a video file of 30 minutes, but I want to extract a video from 00:09:23 to 00:25:33.   I can define the startposition with -ss, but I couldn't find one for the end position. Any help please? so I've recently installed my first Ubuntu, to be precise, a daily build of 16.04, on my new laptop since the hardware was to new for 15.10. Now I'm in the process of setting it up and I want to install php5 and some extensions.  When I execute sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 I get the error message that there is no installation package available for php5 and libapache2.  The error message is in german, so I doubt that this would help, but anyways here it is. :-) E: For package »libapache2-mod-php5« existiert kein Installationskandidat.  Do I need to add a apt-get repository? Or what am I doing wrong? How do I "decompile" Java class files? What program can I use to decompile a class file? Will I actually get Java code, or is it just JVM assembly code?  On Java performance questions on this site I often see responses from people who have "decompiled" the Java class file to see how the compiler optimizes certain things. Get the coordinates from ContourPlot and RegionPlot Deleting elements from std::set while iterating What is the maximum value of the Process ID?  Also, is it possible to change a Process ID? Can we escape Earth's gravity slowly? I had a recent conversation with my girlfriend, who is a physics grad student. She was kind enough to listen to me rant about an idea concerning escape velocity. Unfortunately, I am still thinking about this question, but don't want to bother her with it.  My thought is that we shouldn't actually need to reach 11km/sec to leave the earth's gravity. Instead of this, can we simply apply enough force to overcome earth's gravity without reaching that speed? How we would do this is not a part of my question.  Orbital altitude is $99$ miles. Travelling $60$ mph straight up should get you there in $1.65$ hours, granted you have enough force to push. I know some of the simpler math like $F=ma$, but that didn't help me understand.  I browsed some articles about space elevators and couldn't find my answer.  Then I thought about a regular elevator and the fact that it has enough force to move it away from the earth successfully. Even if the elevator moved at $1$ nanometer/sec, it would still move away from the Earth, overcoming the minute pull of gravity at that altitude.  If you missed it, my question was:  can we simply apply enough force to overcome Earth's gravity without reaching that speed?  Edit: In another example, let's say we could drive a car from here to low Earth orbit. As long as we had enough torque, we should be able to overcome gravity, much like a pickup truck pulling a bunch of lumber. Is that correct? I think everybody with a history of participation can't help but notice the explosive growth of repeated duplicate questions. The work of looking for duplicates and then closing questions has overtaken the work of actually answering questions.  It's become virtually impossible to ask something which hasn't been yet asked. Lately I feel boredom each time I see a new question and start answering it only to realize after the first written sentence that I have answered similar questions five times over or seen them answered some ten times or more. I know where it's going to be going and what answers with what votes it is going to receive before any answer is even written.  It's obviously not the administration's fault, it is simply so. The questions is, what to do about it? Engaging more moderators to close and close duplicates won't work because it's already starting to repel users who get mad at their questions closed and become afraid of asking more or perhaps just go away.  The original idea of Jeff stated the the site is for questions that can be answered. Meaning no open-ended discussions. When I first read this I had a casual thought - well, and what's gonna happen when they all are asked and answered? Will it become a museum, a monument of wisdom and knowledge or what?  I'm not sure what to do about it. Perhaps deprecation/versioning of older questions so that their new versions can sparkle the tiresome evening...  POSTSCRIPTUM.  I recall Star Trek Voyager episode  when another Q asked Captain Janeway for asylum. He was tired of immortality and wanted to die. They opened a hearing and went on to visit the continuum to evaluate the living conditions there which caused the suffering and the wish to escape it in death. A lifeless picture presented itself to the visitors... a house lone in an open space, two people going about their business, nobody talking. When asked why they were silent, the following was said. It's been so long, all has already been said, all stories told, all jokes are made... there is nothing left to do...  Are we there as well?  UPDATE: Just saw this answer in another question:       Also, some of the core questions got asked early on in the life of the site. Great questions still come around from time to time, but many have already been asked.   Doesn't that confirm my point? Can you please explain this to me?          Could you please explain this to me?   I am unable to figure out which to use which situation. I did google, and some posts say they are both the same, even if the second one is more formal. Other posts say could is the past tense of can, but in the above example, I don't think could is used as past tense of can.  What is correct way to use these words? Using "nor" in a list without "neither" This is the classic usage of neither/nor:     I would neither hide nor run away.   But is the following construction grammatical? (More than two choices, no neither)     I wasn't going to play dead.   I wasn't going to hide.   Nor was I going to run away. Why has the role of Bruce Banner been played by different actors in the three films that Hulk has appeared in? Hulk (2003) Eric Bana Bruce Banner  The Incredible Hulk (2008) Edward Norton Bruce Banner  The Avengers (2012) Mark Ruffalo Bruce Banner  Is there any reason why different actors are used in different versions of the same role? Is the following just a matter of showing the 3 properties that make up a metric??  Define d on $\Bbb R\times\Bbb R$ by $d(x,y)=\min \{1,|x-y|\}$. Show that $d$ is a metric on $\Bbb R$     $d(x,y)=0$ if $x=y$   $d(x,y)=d(y,x)$ for every $x,y \in X$   $d(x,y)\le d(x,z)+d(z,y)$ for every $x,y,z \in X$ How do I tackle this combinatorics problem about married couples around a table? Why Does the Transaction Log Keep Growing or Run Out of Space? I am looking at some code and it has this statement:    ~ConnectionManager() {     Dispose(false); }   The class implements the IDisposable interface, but I do not know if that is part of that the tilde(~) is used for. I wanted to add classpath to my JDK. While searching a way to do it I noticed everyone open .profile file using terminal. But when I want to open and edit it with a text editor I couldn't see that file in Home folder.  Can someone tell me why is this. And also if possible how can I access .profile in home folder the GUI way. Doing bad in undergraduate but good in a masters program Suppose you do bad in undergraduate school in say computer science. But you do very well in a masters program in computer science. If you want to apply to a PhD program in computer science, will the masters degree grades offset the undergraduate degree grades?