I would have assumed Rupert Sheldrake would be completely taboo to most on HN, so I'm glad to see your comment voted highly! His telepathy "pseudo" scientific work is what he often leads into with any discussions of fields, and this was my favorite talk he gave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS1Drlyr37Q
Since so many others including myself don't see it, I guess that means it is getting a slow rollout which they are being extra cautious with this time.
Iodine deficiency is still shockingly widespread. According to World Health Organization, "Iodine deficiency is the world’s most prevalent, yet easily preventable, cause of brain damage."
http://www.who.int/nutrition/topics/idd/en/
Technically it would be possible to use JavaScript to intercept the onSubmit event of such a form, and alter the submission location or send the data insecurely wherever you want with AJAX, completely ignoring the destination action that came with the initial HTML. This is one of the reasons people have needed to use forms within secure iFrames to circumvent PCI Compliance requirements when sending credit card numbers.
From that post:
"Our goal is to show people the content they will find most meaningful, and people want accurate news."
People might say they want accurate news, but what many really want is news that supports their views, i.e. confirmation bias.
Traditional papers try to give you a balanced mix of news. Of course, they don't always get it right. Before the TV and the internet, they used to enjoy stable monopolies: one newspaper per city (see the section "We Buy Some Newspapers ... Newspapers" in Warren Buffet's 2012 letter to the shareholders http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2012ltr.pdf). To get to that monopoly, it helped to have good independent journalism. Once they had established their monopoly, the culture often remained (e.g. the board of editors defends its independence). That culture is still largely intact today, even though their margins are under heavy pressure from the internet.
Facebook has a commercial incentive to feed you posts that you will click on. With their detailed user profiles and immediate feedback, the result is predictable: in the case of the election, you will get positive stories of your candidate, and negative stories of the opposite candidate.
Facebook faces some big ethical challenges, and I'm not sure how to fix them. In the mean time, I think we should cherish existing newspapers. If they disappear, without being replaced by something as good or better, we will miss them badly. The president-elect has been bashing them during the election, and is continuing to do so. If you don't have a subscription yet, I suggest you seriously consider subscribing to the NYT or WaPo.
Happened to me too. The Microsoft ID login method did eventually work for me but it was something like 2 hours lost over trying to get a new password through a Skype interface and website, which was a futile approach, at the time at least.
To solve many corner cases, you could maybe have a kind of voucher application at the grocery stores, gas stations, car mechanics, etc., which would provide a temporary advance (or just money from a designated separate emergency or unusual circumstance pool so that it isn't like a credit card) which would need various rules that would guarantee that the service provider would always see the money, but also ensure that the applicant would be registered and held legally liable for misuse of the voucher system.
If you were like me and holding out on Let's Encrypt until Windows XP is supported (even Chrome is still broken on XP) it looks like a date of March 22nd has been set for "getting new cross-signatures from IdenTrust which work on Windows XP."
I haven't met many of these people to ask them, but I know they still exist because of their user agent containing "Windows NT 5.1" and I know for sure they aren't all bots, and many of them even live in Southern California. I suspect these are the people who would be most confused by websites failing to load.
The cost of providing support then is much greater than the cost of a Comodo certificate.
I can sort of understand a handful of rather lazy and/or incompetent users insisting on continuing to use a 15-year-old OS, which was replaced a decade ago, and has not been supported by the vendor for 2 years.
