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This article is a bit dated. AFIK the latest in web scraping legality is LinkedIn vs. HiQ, where HiQ was scraping public LinkedIn profiles. LinkedIn issued a C&D under CFAA, but Hi…

> Last month, the inevitable happened: Brady Gaulke, a 26-year-old Nashville man, was killed in a collision with an S.U.V. while riding a scooter. His grieving parents have launche…

This is so badly needed in the Ethereum space. Metamask is a massive drag and a known onboarding blocker -- Hedgehog seems like a huge leap forward. Congrats team!

Hi John -- sounds like you might be interested in 0x Instant, which lets you offer one-click token-to-token swapping on your website or inside your app. https://0x.org/instant

Sounds like you're referring to security tokens, which place a securitized asset's cap table on a public blockchain. 0x works with all tokenized assets, so we're not opinionated ab…

Great questions! First question is about decentralization. What is off-chain relay in this case? Is that a centralized part of the system? Are there centralized parts of the system…

If you want to list the same assets as everyone else with the same interface in the same markets, then yes, it's hard to compete. However, we see a world of tokenized assets coming…

We call it "Zero Ex"!

You don't have to trust! 0x Exchanges are non-custodial -- you hold onto your funds and atomically execute trades through the 0x smart contracts, which are open source and audited.…

There's a bounty on the 0x smart contracts, but not on this sample exchange codebase https://blog.0xproject.com/the-0x-v2-bug-bounty-f8981f322dd7

Tom from 0x here. Happy to answer any questions about Launch Kit or 0x more broadly!

What exactly is declining? Their MAU, Time Spent, # Advertisers, and Revenue numbers are all increasing ( https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/27/facebook-2-billion-users/ ). Maybe they'…

How would it be lousy? The cars can now go anywhere and dynamically route instead of being stuck on rails and the infrastructure costs are orders of magnitude less.

The most worrying part of this article for me is that processed meats that are advertised as "nitrate-free" really just use natural nitrates from celery salt, which aren't much bet…

+1. Ability to upload music on Google Play Music is also keeping me from switching to Spotify. I have a lot of tracks that simply aren't in the Spotify catalog. If they add that, I…

https://electrek.co/2017/12/19/tesla-breaks-new-records-norw...

Origin has a testnet dApp https://demo.originprotocol.com/

Not really a 'blockchain alternative' -- just a clone of Airbnb that lets you pay in cryptocurrencies. Kind of a shame when there are other actually decentralized home sharing plat…

Reddit is a YC company and HN is just a free service provided through YC (not a company), so it doesn't really seem like they have the incentive to do this.

Not sure what you're implying -- Adidas is German and both Adidas and Columbia pre-date Nike.

"PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in."