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Previous HN discussion on the (now deleted) "Rides of Glory" post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8644080 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8644080 Th
by Thrymr 12y ago
Previous HN discussion on the (now deleted) "Rides of Glory" post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8644080 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8644080
They also seem to have deleted other blog posts that people have criticized, e.g. "Uberdata: How prostitution and alcohol make Uber better" [2].
Internet Archive links:
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140827195715/http://blog.uber.com/ridesofglory https://web.archive.org/web/20140827195715/http://blog.uber....
[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20120524052917/http://blog.uber.com/2011/09/13/uberdata-how-prostitution-and-alcohol-make-uber-better/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120524052917/http://blog.uber....
- gwintrob 12y agoThat part of the article stuck out for me. The authors then draw a comparison to OKCupid "experiment[ing] on its users", but Uber is writing blog posts with anonymized data. I do agree that Uber should be extremely careful with securing its data, but I'd be interested to read more data analysis.