I have recently installed bluestacks on a Windows 7 computer which isn't my normal one and I can't use it often and it's kind of annoying because I don't really own it.  I installed Whatsapp on that computer.  Since my normal computer runs Ubuntu I want to run Whatsapp or at least Whatsapp Web on this one.  I tried to scan an image with Whatsapp just on the Windows computers screen just to test whether this could work - the screen stays black.  Can I run Whatsapp on my own computer? If so, how do I make this happen?
How can I install Whatsapp web app on Ubuntu? I found a similar question , but here I am asking for the WhatsApp desktop webapp so that I can directly access the application without opening a browser.
How to execute a JavaScript function when I have its name as a string I have the name of a function in JavaScript as a string. How do I convert that into a function pointer so I can call it later?  Depending on the circumstances, I may need to pass various arguments into the method too.  Some of the functions may take the form of namespace.namespace.function(args[...]). To explain the expansion of space I have often heard people saying that space is continuously created. This picture is usually applied to cosmological scales but I`m nevertheless curious if some microscopic description of this process could be found (or probably is already available?).  The first thing which comes into my mind by thinking about this is that in theories like loop quantum gravity, there is an idea that space is quantized. Would space expansion then be explained as the creation of new quanta in loop quantum cosmology? Or are there other different ideas, such as the quanta themselves changing properties? Do people actually working on this already have some interesting results? I'm writing a contribution for a double-blind submission system.   Since I would like to supply more data than I could show on a small number of pages, I'm looking for a way to reference supplemental data in my manuscript, such as software scripts, figures or databases.  I could upload on GitHub, RPubs, Figshare and Zenodo, but all of these would expose my real user name (and I don't feel like making a throwaway e-mail account with a new repository for every anonymous publication that I intend to write).  Is there any way to get the above services to do what I want? Or is there a similar service that would allow anonymous hosting of research data?   It would be even better if I could later (e.g. after publication) declassify the information, with the link from the manuscript still being intact. Random piece of plastic Bash is not finding a program even though it's on my path Update to Windows 10: What is going to happen to my data and apps? I have Windows 8.1 Update, if I update to Windows 10 when it becomes available what is going to happen to my data and apps?  Of course I have to do a backup, but I wonder if the data will be overwritten or not. I'm looking for a closed-form expression (in terms of $n$), that will give the sequence  $$ (s_n) = \left( \frac{3}{10}, \, \frac{3}{10} + \frac{33}{100}, \, \frac{3}{10} + \frac{33}{100} + \frac{333}{1000}, \dots \right). $$  Can anyone think of one? I made a related post to this question several minutes ago but I realized I was interpreting the sequence wrong. I've seen sign in methods using  as an authentication provider, for example : (AWS Cloud9)        Is it possible to authenticate into Stack Exchange using this method? At the moment there's other methods such as OpenID, Google, Yahoo and Facebook, but it would be interesting to also have the GitHub authentication. SO Blog icon has partial white background when tab is inactive When you open a tab on the , and switch to another tab, the icon has a partial white background: Firefox (Most obvious) - note the difference between that and the normal Stack Overflow logo  IE  Edge  Tested on Windows 10 with Firefox 41.0.2, Internet Explorer 11 and Microsoft Edge v20.10240.16384.0. (If someone could test this on chrome that would be great) I'm just starting to learn linear algebra and I understand Gaussion elimination but I don't understand this proof:    Is the heart of this the fact that all the while when I've been row-reducing matrices to reduced row-echelon form... I've actually been multiplying a matrix by a series of a elementary matrices?  What does the notation $[A\ \ 0]$ mean?  How is the equation $A = E_1^{-1}...E_k^{-1}$ arrived at? Short story with space microbes latching onto electromagnetic fields This is a sci-fi story set on Earth. From the depths of space comes these microbes that latch onto electromagnetic fields. Anything electronic is rendered useless. There's the usual stuff where governments try to solve the issue but make it ultimately worse. It's only when they realise that the microbes surround the planet that they realise it is futile. The story closes with people having returned to a simpler life, using medieval farming methods, not using electricity in any form, getting about by horse, etc. I think it was a short story. How to add a script to Startup Applications from the command line? What I'm trying to understand is, to what degree does the status/rank of the University (where one completes his/her Ph.D) matter while shaping his/her career after graduation? I would like to know the weight given to one's school in both the following cases:   While applying for post-docs/faculty positions in academia While applying to industrial research labs   For instance, I've read on some forums (I can't locate the link now) that while considering prospective applications for tenure-track faculty positions, very few Universities accept a candidate who has completed his/her Ph.D from a lower ranked school having a lesser "brand" value, irrespective of the fact whether he/she has published equally original work as his/her counterpart from an Ivy league college. How much truth is in this statement? It would be really great if someone already in academia, either as a newly-accepted faculty or someone on the Faculty Hiring committee could share their experiences/statistics on this regard. I'm simply interested to know the answer, without commenting at all on whether such a practice is justifiable.  Similarly, what about recruitment to internationally acclaimed research labs (like  or ) - what importance do they place on the pedigree of a candidate's college, before taking into consideration what they published ?  I'm personally interested in answers related to the field of Computer Science (theory), but the question is applicable to any prospective grad student in any discipline in my opinion. Feel free to share your personal experiences post-Ph.D in detail, as that would give me (and future viewers of this question) about what its like to carve a career once you are out of school! NEWID() In Joined Virtual Table Causes Unintended Cross Apply Behavior My actual work query was an inner join, but this simple example with cross join seems to nearly always reproduce the problem.  SELECT * FROM (     SELECT 1 UNION ALL     SELECT 2 ) AA ( A ) CROSS JOIN (     SELECT NEWID() TEST_ID ) BB ( B )   With my inner join I had many rows for which I added to each a GUID using the NEWID() function, and for about 9 out of 10 such rows the multiplication with the 2-row virtual table produced the expected results, just 2 copies of the same GUID, while 1 out of 10 would produce different results. This was unexpected to say the least and gave me a really hard time trying to find this bug in my test data generation script.  If you take a look at the following queries using as well non-deterministic getdate and sysdatetime functions, you won't see this, I don't anyway-I always see the same datetime value in both final result rows.  SELECT * FROM (     SELECT 1 UNION ALL     SELECT 2 ) AA ( A ) CROSS JOIN (     SELECT GETDATE() TEST_ID ) BB ( B )  SELECT * FROM (     SELECT 1 UNION ALL     SELECT 2 ) AA ( A ) CROSS JOIN (     SELECT SYSDATETIME() TEST_ID ) BB ( B )   I'm currently using SQL Server 2008 and my work around for now is to load my rows with GUIDs into a table variable before finishing out my random data generation script. Once I have them as values in a table as opposed to virtual table, the problem goes away.  I have a workaround, but I'm looking for the ways to workaround without actual tables or table variables.  While writing this I tried without success these possibilities: 1) placing the newid() into a nested virtual table:  SELECT * FROM (     SELECT 1 UNION ALL     SELECT 2 ) AA ( A ) CROSS JOIN (     SELECT TEST_ID     FROM (         SELECT NEWID() TEST_ID     ) TT ) BB ( B )   2) wrapping the newid() within a cast expression such as:  SELECT CAST(NEWID() AS VARCHAR(100)) TEST_ID   3) reversing the order of appearance of the virtual tables within the join expression  SELECT * FROM (     SELECT NEWID() TEST_ID ) BB ( B ) CROSS JOIN (     SELECT 1 UNION ALL     SELECT 2 ) AA ( A )   4) using uncorrelated cross apply  SELECT * FROM (     SELECT NEWID() TEST_ID ) BB ( B ) CROSS APPLY (     SELECT 1 UNION ALL     SELECT 2 ) AA ( A )   Just before finally posting this question, now I tried this with success it seems, a correlated cross apply:  SELECT * FROM (     SELECT NEWID() TEST_ID ) BB ( B ) CROSS APPLY (     SELECT A     FROM (         SELECT 1 UNION ALL         SELECT 2     ) TT ( A )     WHERE BB.B IS NOT NULL ) AA ( A )   Anyone have any other more elegant, simpler workaround? I really don't want to use cross apply or correlation for a simple row multiplication if I don't have to. Page-wide table in two-column mode I want a table that is as wide as the whole page in a document with option twocolumn. The table has to be inserted on the bottom of the page, but that is not necessary.  I've tried:  \begin{table*}[b]   ... \end{table*}   But that puts the table at the end of the document instead of on the same page.  I also tried:  \twocolumn[   \begin{table}[b]     ...   \end{table} ]   But that gives me an error: ! Argument of \@xfloat has an extra }. Combining \twocolumn and the star mark gives the same error.  What's the right way to do this? Is there a sorted collection type in .NET? I'm looking for a container that keeps all its items in order.  I looked at SortedList, but that requires a separate key, and does not allow duplicate keys.  I could also just use an unsorted container and explicitly sort it after each insert.  Usage:   Occasional insert Frequent traversal in order Ideally not working with keys separate from the actual object, using a compare function to sort. Stable sorting for equivalent objects is desired, but not required.  Random access is not required.   I realize I can just build myself a balanced tree structure, I was just wondering if the framework already contains such a beast. Prove that if $B$ is the set of rationals in $[0,1]$ with a finite subcover, then: $1 \leq \sum_{k=1}^n m^*(I_k)$ I have the following homework problem:  Let $B$ be the set of rational numbers in the interval $[0,1]$, and let $\{I_k\}_{k=1}^n$ be a finite collection of open intervals that covers $B$. Prove that $\sum_{k=1}^n m^*(I_k) \geq 1$.    This is my approach, First we have that $B = \mathbb{Q}\cap [0,1]$. Now, $B \subset \bigcup_{k=1}^nI_k$, where $I_k$ are open intervals.In particular $0 \in B \wedge 1 \in B$.Now, since $B \subset \bigcup_{k=1}^nI_k$ then there exist positive numbers, $\epsilon_0, \epsilon_1$ such that: $$(0-\epsilon_0,0+\epsilon_0)\subset \bigcup_{k=1}^nI_k$$ $$(1-\epsilon_0,1+\epsilon_0)\subset \bigcup_{k=1}^nI_k.$$   Clearly, $-e_0 \notin [0,1]$ and $e_1 \notin [0,1]$.I am not sure, if so far I am in the right track. Get the cartesian product of a series of lists? Documents with typical LaTeX errors I am giving a LaTeX course and have the idea to let the students find and solve problems within a few documents. Basically they shall learn how to create minimal examples and read error messages.  However, currently I have no document with 'typical' errors around.  If someone has such examples from him- or herself or within this forum I would like to have the code or link. It does not matter if its short or long. It should just be enough to let the students play with it for some minutes. How to secure my laptop so that hacking by physical access is not possible? I messed up my system earlier, I was greeted with a black screen, when booting in to Ubuntu. When I started up my laptop, I selected the recovery option from the grub menu, and chose fallback at root terminal. I saw that I was able to use the add user command, with it, I probably could use to create a privileged user on my machine.   Isn't that a security issue?  One could have stolen my laptop and at startup chose recovery and add another user, I'm fudged then. Including my data.  Come to think of it, even if you somehow remove that entry, one could boot from a live-CD, get a chroot up and running and then add another user, with the right privileges that allows it to see all my data.   If I set the BIOS to boot at my HD only, no USB, CD/DVD, Network startup, and set a BIOS password, it still wouldn't matter, because you'd still have that grub recovery startup entry.  I am fairly certain that someone from China, Russia can't hack my Ubuntu Trusty Tahr, from the network, because it's secure like that. But, if one has physical access to my - your - machine, then, well, that's why I'm asking this question. How can I secure my machine so that hacking through physical access is not possible?    Bug Report: