Are you demanding the same standard from commenters whose comment screams Google, Waymo, Lyft or Tesla employee?
I agree with you that Uber employees should divulge their affiliation, but so should those with a conflict of interest against Uber.
Edit: thank you for editing your comment (after I replied with mine) to divulge that you're an alphabet employee. Your behavior is commendable.
Edit 2: seriously?! A comment expecting people on both sides to disclose their affiliations was flagged?
This. Make some company out to be the boogeyman du jour, then tell that lie often enough until most people believe it and it has spread all the way around the world with no chance of the truth catching up. It's bullshit, and I'm amazed that so many HNers that typically express healthy skepticism fall for it.
1) I don't post with my account in flamewar topics because of fanboy downvotes.
2) The article omits pretty much any important detail that is in favor of this boogeyman company so readers assume the absolute worst. Check out pfarnsworth's comments here to see that this is actually a ruling very much in Uber's favor. He did a better job of commenting than me.
I'm also pro-Apple, pro-Monsanto, pro-Facebook and pro-every-other-company journalists love to hate and only tell one side of the story because I've personally seen my company maligned unfairly by the media.
Uber is allowed to continue working on and using LIDAR. The article has intentionally mislead you because Uber is every journalist's favorite boogeyman right now.
Wow, this article is so far off the ruling. Alsup found the patent infringement cases meritless and said Waymo's trade secret claims are an overreach and that Waymo is trying to claim ownership over general principles and approaches in the field.
Uber will be allowed to keep working on the SDCs and on LIDAR. Only strikes against Uber is that Levandowski can't work on LIDAR, which Uber already took action on before the injunction was unsealed, and the discovery rights granted to Waymo.
This article is a perfect example of the extreme media bias against Uber.
Edit: two downvotes within seconds of posting the truth? I know that downvote baiting is frowned upon but these posts are filled with so many people astroturfing for Google, Waymo and Lyft that this comment is going to get downvoted anyways, because some people really don't want the truth to be the most upvoted comment. Honestly all these stories look like the Apple stories that inevitable turn into fanboy flamewars. There are so many HNers with conflicts of interest upvoting these stories and participating in them that almost none of the comments can be trusted as genuine or rational.
Edit: thank you for editing your comment (after I replied with mine) to divulge that you're an alphabet employee. Your behavior is commendable.
Edit 2: seriously?! A comment expecting people on both sides to disclose their affiliations was flagged?