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How do you show a hidden folder (whose name starts with .) in File Manager a.k.a. Nautilus on Ubuntu?  I am somewhat new to Ubuntu and can't seem to find the "view" menu. How to remove a filter that is an anonymous object? In my functions.php file I would like to remove the below filter, but I'm not sure how to do it since it's in a class. What should remove_filter() look like?  add_filter('comments_array',array( &amp;$this, 'FbComments' ));   It's on line 88 . What is the yield keyword used for in C#? Vectors and Norms If $a$ and $b$ are vectors such that $\|a\| = 4$, $\|{b}\| = 5$, and $\|{a} + {b}\| = 7$, then find $\|2 {a} - 3 {b}\|$.  I couldn't figure out how to start off this problem. I attempted to use $$\cos \theta = \frac{a\cdot b}{\|a\|\cdot \|b\|}$$ But I still don't know what to do. Could someone nudge me in the right direction?  Thank you! I have been trying to teach myself QGIS by using this forum and others to help. Most of my questions can be answered by downloading plugins that are available through 3rd party repositories but for some reason I am not able to connect with these. Anyone have any ideas why this is the case? What is the difference between integration and unit tests? I have a Dell N5110 laptop with integrated Nvidia GeForce GT 525M and an Intel HD Graphics 3000 card; My problem is the default card is the Intel one, and it provides a very bad performance with Windows 8. So can I force to use the Nvidia one all the time including "Desktop Windows Manager" ? I've been playing Agar for some time now, and lately I've noticed there was a new XP system in Agar. Since then I've been wondering what variables chance the XP gained. I've tried googling it, but with no luck.  I'm looking for how the XP system works in these game modes:   FFA Teams Experimental 80s-90s anime (movie or series) in which an armored girl exchanges age with a dying man on a beach I have two identical folders, with same structure and contents like this:  folder_1   hello.txt   subfolder     byebye.txt  folder_2   hello.txt   subfolder     byebye.txt   if I compress them as tar.xz formats I get two different archives with two different file sizes (just a few bytes, but they're not identical).  $ cd folder_1 &amp;&amp; tar -Jcf archive.tar.xz * $ cd folder_2 &amp;&amp; tar -Jcf archive.tar.xz *   I get:  folder_1/archive.tar.xz != folder_2/archive.tar.xz   and of course if I md5sum or sha1sum them I'll get two different hashes  And that's my problem... I need to check if a provided archive is identical to the one I have in my storage. I cannot use hashing nor just check file sizes.  Using zip instead of tar.xz works as zip always produces identical achives from identical files. Why is this happening? Is there a way to prevent it? Im confused about fire. The way I see it :   Heat creates (kinetic) energy in mass and this creates stronger vibrations of atoms. When those vibrations are strong enough the electrons interact stronger due to electromagnetic forces. This causes the electrons to fly away. This is the creation of a plasma and the direction of most electrons is the direction of the flame. the shape and heat of the flame depends mainly on the amount of electrons and their velocity ( apart from the source of heat and the considered gas and solid material) the electrons move freely ( but not random ) in the flame. there is a chemical reaction going on that usually produces smoke or such. the entropy increases in all the above 6 steps and the process is repeated. the electromagnetic energy is converted into kinetic energy of the electron and conductivity in the plasma (flame). the moving electrons create an electromagnetic field.   That is more or less how I see it. What steps are ok ?  And the main question , why is there light involved ?  I mean why cant we just have kinetic energy of the electrons and a changing magnetic field ? Why are there photons ? If the electrons are in a high energy state why cant they just move faster instead of emitting a photon ???  Why is the light usually visible ? is that because of our structure of air ?  If the light is an electromagnetic wave why does the flame go up ? does that imply all electromagnetic waves go up ?? But electromagnetic waves are not influanced by gravity or buoyancy are they ??  What is the final destiny of the electrons and photons if the heat is gone ??  I am puzzled by this. Why must a singularity form inside a black hole? Can I get SSD rw performance while keeing data security if I combine SSD & HDD in btrfs RAID1 I have 2 storage devices; classical slow HDD (750GB, /dev/sda) and faster SSD (128GB, /dev/sdb). Currently I have installed Ubuntu &amp; Mint on same btrfs partition on SSD (/dev/sdb5). My btrfs pool consists of /dev/sdb5.  What I want to achieve is data replication on HDD while keeping SSD performance: Something like this:  For read case it would be ideal for procedure to go like this:   read from SSD check checksum if it verifies.. awesome, give me the data if not, fetch data from HDD and perform error correction through duplicate data   I'd manually run (some tool I'm not sure which one... btrfs check --repair perhaps?) every month or so to check HDD checksums and correct them via SSD data against bitrot.  For write case:   write to SSD sync to HDD when write requirements are low, thus not slowing down the system.   Is this possible and how would I do it?  Bottom line is, I like btrfs and would like it to duplicate data across HDD &amp; SSD drive automatically while keeping SSD excellent performance.   Using SSD as write cache is not an option since it's missing data duplication and security. Recently, I have noticed that on most applications I have on Ubuntu 16.04, when I load the application, the window is displayed with a strange multi-coloured border (see the images below). If I maximise the window though, the border disappears and the window is displayed as expected.  This started happening for no apparent reason. If I reboot my machine, things return to normal at first, but after a while the problem comes back.  The issue occurs on most applications, including Nautilus, Software Centre, Terminal, System Settings, etc... I also get the same border appearing when I right click on the desktop, with the border surrounding the pop-up menu.  However, I have noticed that it does not happen on Chrome, but it does happen on other applications which did not come with Ubuntu by default.  Any ideas on what is causing the problem? Thanks! Weighting features prior to SVM I'm building an object detector using HOG features and linear SVM. Some of the regions of the object are more "distinctive" so I would like to give more weight to the features extracted from those regions. (e.g. imagine we want to detect between mugs and glasses, then the most "distinctive" part is the mug's handle)  How could I do this? For sure there should be a more intelligent way than just replicating the features of those "distinctive" regions. I wasn't forcing myself to say anything, or/nor trying to be funny.   "Or" sounds more grammatically correct to me. But "nor" has more Google results. So I'm confused. Can the problem of unification of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity be converted into a pure Mathematical problem? I mean to say, can you make someone understand the problem who only knows Mathematics, even if a Physics description is absent? I mean, describing the problem with unification using pure Mathematical formulation.  Can we make the problem seem as if it has nothing to do with the real world and describe it only as a problem of mathematics? Can you transit through the Schengen Area without a visa when traveling on separate tickets? I am planning to travel from US to Albania, and when I search on flight ticket websites such that US as origin and Tirana (TIA) as destination, then it costs me $1050 cheapest. However, it costs me $850 when I buy two separate round-trips through Barcelona (US to Barcelona round-trip, Barcelona to Tirana round-trip). I just checked Barcelona, but there might be other transfer airports in Schengen area which costs me even less. I don't need a visa for Albania but I need a visa to go into a Schengen country, so my question is 3-fold:   How can I learn which Europe airports have the international transfer area, so that I don't need a Schengen visa to transfer through the airport? I guess the airlines would take care of that when you buy the tickets together (I already have such an experience multiple times), but given that I will buy them separately, I need to have that information beforehand. The two separate flights I am planning to buy are through different airlines, and in my experience, the airlines check whether the traveler has a visa for the destination country before they let you into the airplane. So, would it be easy to convince the US to Barcelona trip airline that Barcelona is not my final destination, but I have a separate flight from Barcelona to Albania? Are there any Europe airports that have "international baggage claim" areas which are before the passport checkpoint? I mean, if I buy separate flights, do I have any chance to check-in a baggage for the US to Barcelona trip? When will data.SE get updated data? promised that data.SE would &quot;soon&quot; get live data:     I realize it's a long weekend, but given that data.SE is now over 2 months out of date, it would be nice if this was finally rolled out. Non-finite clause complementation of complex transitive verbs This question has been bothering me for a while. It came up when I was reading Chapter 16 of "A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language."   How to explain the grammatical structure of the following four sentences?    "We knew him to be a spy." "I saw her leave the room." "I heard someone shouting." "I got the watch repaired."    What category do the four non-finite clauses in boldface fall into? They do not seem to fall into any of relative, nominal, comparative and adverbial clauses.