I see lots of Hot Network Questions which don't have lots of votes and views (after becoming hot network question, it gets both lots of votes and views).  How are they selected? Is this purely random or picked by human hands?
I really like the , where certain questions from the Stack Exchange Network are presented, along with a hotness rating that is described as &quot;arbitrary&quot; in its tooltip. Such questions also appear randomly on the sidebar on sites across the network, under the heading &quot;Hot Network Questions&quot;. How do these arbitrary hotness points work, and how are they used to select questions to appear in those lists?
When is unbalanced data really a problem in Machine Learning? We already had multiple questions about unbalanced data when using , , ,  and a number of other similar questions, what makes it a very popular topic! Unfortunately, each of the questions seems to be algorithm-specific and I didn't find any general guidelines for dealing with unbalanced data.  Quoting , dealing with unbalanced data     (...) heavily depends on the learning method. Most general purpose   approaches have one (or several) ways to deal with this.   But when exactly should we worry about unbalanced data? Which algorithms are mostly affected by it and which are able to deal with it? Which algorithms would need us to balance the data? I am aware that discussing each of the algorithms would be impossible on Q&amp;A site like this, I am rather looking for a general guidelines on when it could be a problem. Why does Java not have block-scoped variable declarations? When Apple was in the high $600 or so range, it split 6 times and made it more affordable to purchase more shares for less, even though the value was technically the same. I see companies like Google are extremely high per share and am wondering why or why not they would or wouldn't split their stock right now. Need help finding a good book on Riemann Geometry Opinions on closing an older question as a duplicate of a newer question What's everyone's opinion on closing an older question as a duplicate of a newer one, if the newer one is clearly the better resource? I'm looking at a special case right now, where the two were posted by the same person; the  was migrated to SU before a commenter pointed out it was a . Is it considered good practice to close the older as a duplicate of the newer?  More generally, is it ok to do that for separate questions posted by different people, if the older question went unanswered but the newer has a good answer?  (I should probably mention I saw , but I think this is separate) Can't execute terminal commands: "the command 'sudo' is available in '/usr/bin/sudo'" I have been using Ubuntu 12.04 for quite a while and have never had a problem come at me out of the blue like this. I'm trying to install python 3.2 on my Ubuntu system and every time I run the code to compile the python source, I get this error:  'Command 'sudo' is available in '/usr/bin/sudo' The command could not be located because '/usr/bin' is not included in the PATH environment variable. sudo: command not found'   I've also tried running gksudo command to view what my environment shows but I pretty much get the same error. Find missing indexes tool available to find missing indexes in mssql 2008 ? can we find the missing index using Database Engine Tuning Advisor How do I invoke a Java method when given the method name as a string? If I have two variables:  Object obj; String methodName = "getName";   Without knowing the class of obj, how can I call the method identified by methodName on it?  The method being called has no parameters, and a String return value. It's a getter for a Java bean. Is it possible to load a TikZ library locally? Possible Duplicate:          On  it's a stated fact that if $I$ and $J$ are coprime ideals of a ring $A$, then $I^k$ and $J^\ell$ are also coprime for any integers $k,\ell$.   There's no proof given. Why is this fact true? Mortarboard badge not awarded Does SOQL join not respect OWD /sharing settings? A->B are two objects connected using lookup relationships. If somehow, I get read only access to child record but do not have access on parent record then still i am able to see data from parent record through formula fields. Similarly will SOQL in Apex also allow me to fetch fields from parent record regardless of using 'WITH Sharing ' keyword at class level? Problems with \input{table.tex}\hline after 2020 fall LaTeX release Since updating to the 2020 Fall release (MikTeX on Windows but also tested with TeXLive), I can no longer compile files where tables are imported from an external file using \input and followed by \hline (or \bottomrule). Things work perfectly with older releases. Note that it works if the last \\ is outside the file to be imported, but this is not a feasible option if the tables are created automatically from other softwares. Here is a MWE:  \begin{document}  \begin{table}   \caption{Table in text}   \begin{tabular}{lcc}     a &amp; 1 &amp; 2\\     b &amp; 1 &amp; 2\\     \hline   \end{tabular} \end{table}  \begin{table}   \caption{Table in other file 1}   \begin{tabular}{lcc}     \input{table1}     \hline   \end{tabular} \end{table}  \begin{table}   \caption{Table in other file 2}   \begin{tabular}{lcc}     \input{table2}\\     \hline   \end{tabular} \end{table}  \end{document}  with external files: table1.tex:     a &amp; 1 &amp; 2\\     b &amp; 1 &amp; 2\\  table2.tex:     a &amp; 1 &amp; 2\\     b &amp; 1 &amp; 2  Here is the log when it fails: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.21 (MiKTeX 20.10) entering extended mode (MWE.tex LaTeX2e &lt;2020-10-01&gt; patch level 1 L3 programming layer &lt;2020-10-05&gt; xparse &lt;2020-03-03&gt; (&quot;C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/latex/base\article.cls&quot; Document Class: article 2020/04/10 v1.4m Standard LaTeX document class (&quot;C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/latex/base\size10.clo&quot;)) (&quot;C:\Program Files\MiKTeX\tex/latex/l3backend\l3backend-pdftex.def&quot;) (MWE.aux) (table1.tex) ! Misplaced \noalign. \hline -&gt;\noalign                    {\ifnum 0=`}\fi \hrule \@height \arrayrulewidth \futurelet... l.18     \hline                 ! You can't use `\hrule' here except with leaders. \hline -&gt;\noalign {\ifnum 0=`}\fi \hrule                                           \@height \arrayrulewidth \futurelet... l.18     \hline                 ! Missing number, treated as zero. &lt;to be read again&gt;                     \futurelet  l.18     \hline                 ! Illegal unit of measure (pt inserted). &lt;to be read again&gt;                     \futurelet  l.18     \hline                 (table2.tex) [1{C:/Users/Gouel/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/pdftex/config/pdftex.map}] (MWE.aux) ) (see the transcript file for additional information)&lt;C:/Program Files/MiKTeX/fo nts/type1/public/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb&gt; Output written on MWE.pdf (1 page, 14750 bytes). Transcript written on MWE.log.  With an older release under Linux, it works perfectly: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex)  restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./MWE.tex LaTeX2e &lt;2020-02-02&gt; patch level 2 L3 programming layer &lt;2020-02-14&gt; (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2019/12/20 v1.4l Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3backend/l3backend-pdfmode.def) (./MWE.aux) (./table1.tex) (./table2.tex) [1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/up dmap/pdftex.map}] (./MWE.aux) )&lt;/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/publi c/amsfonts/cm/cmr10.pfb&gt; Output written on MWE.pdf (1 page, 13788 bytes). Transcript written on MWE.log. SEO for websites with very less content and a lot of images Let's say we have an image exhibition website that has got a lot of images but next to nothing content. The focus keyword for this website is "Artistic wallpapers". What would be the best approach w.r.t SEO for such a website.  Here are a few things I can imagine:   Submitting sitemaps ( image and web ) Having a good pagespeed score. Nice navigation Breadcrumbs sharing the website content on Social media. Having appropriate titles.   Having worked on all these things, what can be done if Search engines are picking wrong keywords ( For example views, votes, ratings) Can anything be done so that Search engines don't track these specific items? Also, is it a good practice to have all the pages submitted to Search engines at once? How can I get the HTML source of a given web address in C#? Avoiding NullPointerException in Java Recently I saw a widget on the Stack Overflow website which says Stack&nbsp;Overflow now has its own currency called "unicoins". According to this widget, a user can earn reputation, customize Stack Overflow by changing its colors and the user can also remove the vote down button from their questions and answers by spending "unicoins".  This widget does not look real, because this is out of standard of the Stack Overflow website.  Also today is 1st April. Is Stack Overflow fooling us?  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{Title}} in beamer? In my beamer presentation, I want to cite the reference without title. So, I tried:  \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage[   backend=bibtex8,   defernumbers=true,   sorting=none,   firstinits=true,   uniquename=init,   uniquelist=false,   refsegment=section,   citestyle=numeric ]{biblatex} \addbibresource{mini.bib} \AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{Title}} \begin{document} \section{Start} \begin{frame}   first cite\footfullcite{Julie2006}   %\printbibliography \end{frame} \section{2nd} \begin{frame}   Second cite\footfullcite{gyof} \end{frame} \end{document}   with the mini.bib :  @article{gyof,   Author={BLJ},   Title={Some Title},   Journal={joural1},   volume={15},   pages={1337},   Year={1985} } @article{Julie2006,   Author={JBS},   Title={Some Other Title},   Journal={journal2},   volume={74},   pages={144411},   Year={2006} }   with \AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{Title}} I was expecting no title will be produced, but thats not the case:   Is there any incompatibility between clearfield and footfullcite? Or I am just missing something? When is JavaScript's eval() not evil? I'm writing some JavaScript code to parse user-entered functions (for spreadsheet-like functionality). Having parsed the formula I could convert it into JavaScript and run eval() on it to yield the result.  However, I've always shied away from using eval() if I can avoid it because it's evil (and, rightly or wrongly, I've always thought it is even more evil in JavaScript, because the code to be evaluated might be changed by the user).  So, when it is OK to use it? Is there a nice solution to get a "presenter mode" for Latex presentations? I really like the way Keynote and MS Office (and also OpenOffice &amp; similar) support a presentation mode that displays the current slide, the next (and maybe previous) slide, the elapsed and current time, and also any notes attached to the slides on one screen and the presentation itself on the beamer/second screen.  It enables me to give good, professional presentations without having to know everything by heart (I suck at that).  I found a , but I am looking for alternatives, especially OS-independent would be great. Not having to create 3 different PDFs is a boon.  Any hints?