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Spam detection at Twitter is horrendous. Search results for many crypto and stock ticker symbols (or cashtags like $SOFI) are deluged with Discord links for shady trading groups endlessly trying to rope in paid subscribers. If you select "top" search results, you'll see much less spam but stale tweets. "Latest" yields tons of spam. They've been tweeting with the same phrases like "don't miss the next move in a few hours" and "top analyst price target" for years, presumably because it's never been a priority to get rid of them.

Some ls man pages state the following about the -1 option: "This is the default when the output is not directed to a terminal."

I've never needed to use -1 when piping ls's output to another command.

Re the title, "$" and "dollars" are redundant, and you might want to Google every day vs. everyday.

There's a newer Bloomberg article with a matching title that's different from the one linked to here.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-05-13/trump-dru...

"Divide the number 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,998,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 into 1"

Isn't this poor wording? The author is dividing 1 by the large number above, not the other way around.

Corporatese is nothing new on Mozilla's blogs, unfortunately. See this DF post from last year for another example: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/02/16/mozilla

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane

made illegal by the UN

The UN is not a government.

What is the purpose of this site?

Why is Kai Krause not credited?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/cartograph...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7164630

It's another poorly-written blog post.

"The use of centralized exchanges remain a frustrating point-of-failure" should be remains.

"Chinese leaders have little issue exploiting as they look to crackdown on the once high-flying bitcoin" should be crack down (2 words).

"The flurry of companies to hop aboard the bandwagon and inflate this most recent bubble, including Baidu and China, were quick to fall in line" should be China Telecom.

That's where I stopped reading. Please have enough respect for your readers' time to do some proofreading before posting.

exactly the same as HN

One of the first noticeable aspects of the site is how much harsher on the eyes a pure white background is compared to the #f6f6ef used at HN.

This is incorrect and misleading right off the bat. Ctrl+Z does not "send process to background." You will almost always need to use the bg command for that after suspending the running program.

Please read http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and pay close attention to the 4th paragraph from the bottom.

It seems to be impossible to get an uncluttered view of U.S. sports stories. When I clicked on Sports on the left, some U.S. stories did appear, but they were buried among UK-based pieces. To narrow it down, on the right I clicked Countries and then Americas. I was left with 2 items: one about a UK team scouting a Brazilian soccer player, and one non-sports story about a cellist.

Mac OS X as well as Solaris have been registered as SUS compliant, whereas Linux has not.

http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

The stories at http://evening-edition.com/ are much more meaningful.

Why link to #p3? Let me read the post from the top without making me scroll up.

Being able to browse email in the background while composing email is a huge win

It was possible to do this before the changes rolled out. Shift-compose opened it (still does) in a new window, and you could work with it and your mailbox side-by-side.

You have many options for improving your reading experience, among them:

Evernote Clearly

Readability's Read Now feature

InstaRead

viewtext.org (always extremely slow for me)

Agreed about the small things. I'll never understand why they decided to put the ctrl+F find dialog at the very bottom of the window. It trips me up almost every time I use Firefox, which isn't often. The vast majority of computer users are not conditioned to look down immediately after invoking find.

There needs to be a way to close the YouTube player, not just hide it. I keep getting "video player is too small" errors after hiding the player so I can scroll down and select another song.

Incidentally, if the songs you want are available on the iTunes Store, http://preview.fm/ is a lot cleaner and easier to deal with, at least if 30-90 second samples will suffice.

There is little correlation between onehappybird's happiness map and maps of suicide rates in the US.

A pause button would be nice. Also, parts of Australia light up with activity on the map, but strangely it isn't listed on the dashboard.

That ?gwh= parameter should be removed from the URL. It will trigger the paywall for some people.

No feed.

From the HN Guidelines[0]: "If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

[0] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Another bit of scumminess: When you click to delete a profile, you are taken to a page where you're expected to enter credit card details. Despite the presence of a RapidSSL badge, this page is not encrypted. Even forcing https into the URL doesn't work.

This looks an awful lot like plagiarism. He rewrote Rob Weir's blog post without giving him credit. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4465098