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Excavator··on Nazi Propaganda: Out of the Cage
I'm unsure how one would find the numbers but aren't Islamism an ideology that affects the world in a very much the same way.

And as for countries, doesn't Turkey have something of a track record when it comes to getting rid of unwanted groups, nowadays focusing on Kurds as I recall it? Or is this just some form of propaganda?

Excavator··on Houdini: Maybe the Most Exciting Development in CSS
If you target IE, sure. But that's hardly a fault with CSS.
Excavator··on H.264 is supported in WebRTC from Chrome 50
For a demo of screen, window, and application sharing see:

https://mozilla.github.io/webrtc-landing/gum_test.html

Excavator··on Memory Usage of Firefox with e10s Enabled
Where? I don't see any such conclusion. Mind quoting the relevant bit?
Excavator··on Memory Usage of Firefox with e10s Enabled
There's a bug open for basing it on the amount of cores and memory.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1066789

Excavator··on The Brain Is Hardwired to Snap
More accurate spatial reasoning could also be due to the need to navigate a complex environment, such as during hunting.

It could also be due to males having larger brains.

Excavator··on Visual Turing Test
Well, yea. It says as much on the page:

"one is painted by a human and another one is generated by artificial intelligence based on a photo and a style of a painter."

I find this to be easily "beatable" by simply judging which one is most likely to have its origin in a photo (vanity, and such) with a fallback on the one with a lot of repeating patterns.

Excavator··on Ask HN: Best way to learn HTML and CSS for web design?
There's a whole subsection dedicated to learning on MDN.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Learn

Excavator··on Kazakhstan to MitM all HTTPS traffic starting Jan 1
Of course a system misbehaves if you use an (intentionally) broken application. That's a Google Chrome issue and not an issue with pinning.
Excavator··on Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client
Project Oxidation is what you're looking for.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1135640

Excavator··on Firefox: We Don't Need Google's Money Any More
> - completion while typing

It's there.

> - display JavaScript data structures in more visual way

Sort of? Is the existence of the 'inspect' function enough?

> - breakpoints on DOM changes, events and Ajax requests

I'm not sure about this. I mean, you can set the breakpoints in code per usual but I expect you mean setting them on the nodes themselves and perhaps global breakpoints in the net panel?

> - profile network, memory and cpu usage

This sort of profiling?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Performance

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Network_Monit...

> - navigate cookies, indexdb and websql databases

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Storage_Inspe...

By the by, WebSQL isn't part of any standardization track and will not be implemented in Firefox as it stands, and neither will IE it looks like.

> - reformat JavaScript code

You mean "prettify source"? If so, yes.

> - CSS editor

There's the Style Editor, and the side pane of the Inspector.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Style_Editor

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Page_Inspecto...

> - work as IDE

I guess the Scratchpad is the closest thing to that. So technically, no. As a side note, there is the WebIDE for Firefox OS development.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Tools/Scratchpad

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Tools/WebIDE

> - debugger API to work together with IDEs like Netbeans

It's possible with the remote debugging protocol but the only implementation I know of is the proof of concept that Paul Rouget put together two years ago, although I don't think he released any code.

http://paulrouget.com/e/devtoolsnext/

> - profile 2D and 3D performance

You mean FPS and such? If so see the profiling tools linked previously.

Excavator··on Firefox: We Don't Need Google's Money Any More
I currently have 1290tabs in the tab bar, about ~40 of them loaded with memory usage around 2GB for the whole browser without noticing any issues.

My most CPU intensive extensions are Stylish @ 3%, µUblock @ 2%, and All Tabs Helper @ 1%. For tabs it's about:performance @ 22%, a YouTube video @ 6%, and a paused YouTube video @ 2%.

This is with Nightly (binary downloaded from Mozilla) on a 4core 3.7GHz AMD CPU, with an integrated 8core GPU: the A10-7850K running Gentoo Linux.

Excavator··on Firefox: We Don't Need Google's Money Any More
Some relevant, interesting, material on counting CVEs:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JustinSchuh/posts/CNEgtJWYTb5

http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2010/05/vulnerability-databases-...

Excavator··on Firefox: We Don't Need Google's Money Any More
"I think hanging someone is worse than just giving them poison."

I don't particularly care about this spyware debate but I can't see how something bad being better than something else bad bears any relevance unless we are talking about choosing between two bad options.

Excavator··on Firefox: We Don't Need Google's Money Any More
Source?

Are you perhaps thinking of the currently unused "class-A data"?

https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2014/04/30/firefox-syncs-n...

https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2014/02/07/a-better-firefo...

https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-auth-server/wiki/onepw-protoc...

Edit:

From what I can see, client side encryption in Google Chrome appears to be opt-in?

Excavator··on Firefox: We Don't Need Google's Money Any More
None?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/tag/hacker%20news

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/tag/hackernews

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hn-utility-su...

Or do you mean "none" is some other way?

Excavator··on Firefox: We Don't Need Google's Money Any More
Pocket¹, and also Hello are being migrated to extensions now.

1: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215694

Excavator··on Firefox: We Don't Need Google's Money Any More
> like how it pops that magnifier on taps, preventing fat fingering

Zoomed View? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663803

> It's also the best browser in terms of web standards implemented.

http://caniuse.com/#compare=firefox+45,chrome+49,and_chr+46,...

Looks pretty "even" to me? Mostly the things Google seem to be focusing on is things they can use in their services or that can use their already existing services as a back-end, for example speech synthesis.

> implements the Push and the Notifications API

Push API is available in Firefox Dev Edition¹·².

> Along with other features, like giving access to the phone's camera

What do you mean? This is available via the same API in Firefox.

> giving each website its own "window"

Think you could clarify what you mean with "window"?

1: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/10/keep-pushing-it-with-the-w...

2: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/Push_API

Excavator··on Firefox: We Don't Need Google's Money Any More
Where did you hear this?

Pocket were added as it were easier than implementing their own Reading List, although Pocket will be shipped as a default extension in the future rather than being integrated. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215694

You sure you're not confusing Reading List and Reader View? Work on Reader View is still happening in bugs such as this one: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1175536

Excavator··on What makes babies laugh?
Worked on me. Falling into stinging nettles? No reaction. Bee sting? No reaction. Scratching up knees and arms on a gravel road? No reaction.

In contrast. Teacher panicking over a bee landing on my arm? And now I'm uncomfortable with bees and its ilk.

Of course, it could also be that I have some sort of mental illness.

Excavator··on Can Women Build A Better Tinder?
No, I mean men who claim that they don't fall for the "wrong" women.
Excavator··on The perfect TV
I'd rather say the article being about wishing that TVs were pure monitors but with an IR sensor and more inputs than a generic monitor.

40" is certainly not too small for any home I've lived in or visited. Besides, the article itself asked for monitors in the range 40" to 60".

As for the Benq, the most expensive price around here translates to about 1400USD. Granted, that's still ~50% more than the asked for 1000USD but that's most likely due to a lack of demand.

If you want a TV that follows the rest of the spec (UHD, >=40", <1000USD, >=4HDMI CEC) then, sadly, it seems like you'll have to live with the woe of a "Smart TV", with its complex remote, such as the Philips 55PUT6400 55" 60Hz (~918USD converted price): http://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/55PUT6400_12/6000-series-4k-uhd...

Excavator··on Can Women Build A Better Tinder?
Have you met men who says otherwise? Isn't that why you have the meme "Don't stick your dick in crazy"?
Excavator··on Cheap DNA Sequencing Is Here – Writing DNA Is Next
Define compiler? As I recall it Genome Compiler[1] allows you to define functions and then order the finished product.

1: http://www.genomecompiler.com/

Excavator··on Popular Google Chrome extensions are constantly tracking you by default
It can also happen due to third-party scripts, in the following example an opt-in ad to support the developer:

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/3pwcey/firefox_ext...

Excavator··on The perfect TV
There's a handy map on Wikipedia:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Digital_broadcast_st...

Edit: There's nothing technically stopping you from having multiple tuner ICs and using the correct one along with some form of external adapter if there's a difference in connectors.

Excavator··on The perfect TV
Then they should just sell their monitor with a HDMI/USB stick. That way they might also be able to increase sales by selling "upgrade sticks"/"special edition sticks".
Excavator··on The perfect TV
Isn't the USA like most other western countries that have access to the free to air channels over the Internet?

Granted, I think a better title/conclusion would be to do away with TVs completely and just have pure monitors with a separate STB, or PC with a TV card.

Excavator··on The perfect TV
Too small? At what distance is this?

Sorry, those are the only sane monitors I've seen at an interesting size with UHD or true 4k resolution.

Excavator··on The perfect TV
True, I missed that. But then I wouldn't expect a monitor targeted at being used as an in-store display to be heavy on apps or slow to switch input. There might be an issue in the boot-up though.
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