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Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by misterrobot »

whorleater wrote: post #38
misterrobot wrote: post #34

The worst part about Palantir is their ability to masquerade as this hip startup, as though working for them is as innocent as working for Imgur or Twitter or whatever. They recruit the hell out of MIT students, and it sucks seeing my friends interview for this incredibly shitty company that has openly said it won't go public since that would make running their business "very difficult" (hm, because you're doing repr…

Interning for Palantir is a pretty big resume boost for college students, and they have one of the highest paying internships in the valley. There's some serious benefits to going to Palantir.

If you have the ability to intern at Palantir you have the ability to intern at any number of more responsible companies. Palantir has a bigger booth at the career fair, but I'd bet working at Apple or Uber is just as much of a resume boost at much less of a societal cost. (source: am a college student)

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by tn13 »

Two months is a short time but I had sort of expected this given how bad their service of performing last few days. That is why I had started moving to other services.

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by jonnybgood »

misterrobot wrote: post #34

The worst part about Palantir is their ability to masquerade as this hip startup, as though working for them is as innocent as working for Imgur or Twitter or whatever. They recruit the hell out of MIT students, and it sucks seeing my friends interview for this incredibly shitty company that has openly said it won't go public since that would make running their business "very difficult" (hm, because you're doing repr…

What makes them a shitty company? Why is their work reprehensible?

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by dwynings »

minimaxir wrote: post #27
mrdrozdov wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting you say this, since it seems like DiffBot is doing something similar and received positive media recently: http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/11/diffbot-aims-to-build-the-i...

DiffBot appears to be different (pun intended). Even when implementing your own scraper, you still have to understand the inherent structure/organization of the webpage. DiffBot appears to do that automatically, which could be a timesaver if it works reliably without significant data fidelity issues . I put the HN front page through their Discussion API Test Drive...and it identifies submission elements except submis…

Hi Max,

All of our automatic APIs aren't meant to be used on directories or listings pages (for that, we provide a crawler which gathers those links and then feeds them into our automatic APIs). The discussion API is intended to be used on discussion pages, for instance: http://www.diffbot.com/testdrive/?api=discussion&url=https%3...

If you wanted just a list of submissions and score, you could use our custom API toolkit(similar to Kimono): http://www.diffbot.com/products/custom/

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by tn13 »

To all those badmouthing Palantir. I think they are just a hogwash. They are just pretending to be something that Fox Maulder would investigate I dont think they are. They are just helping the government spend more money on problems that are not worth solving and create new problems for citizens.

The place is likely to be very shitty to work for but by suggesting that they might be doing something that is James Bond equivalent in software world might make it sound too cool for some developers.

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by randycupertino »

whorleater wrote: post #38
misterrobot wrote: post #34

The worst part about Palantir is their ability to masquerade as this hip startup, as though working for them is as innocent as working for Imgur or Twitter or whatever. They recruit the hell out of MIT students, and it sucks seeing my friends interview for this incredibly shitty company that has openly said it won't go public since that would make running their business "very difficult" (hm, because you're doing repr…

Interning for Palantir is a pretty big resume boost for college students, and they have one of the highest paying internships in the valley. There's some serious benefits to going to Palantir.

That's surprising, as they're known for being incredibly shady and have a pretty bad rep. They might pay a lot, but it's because it's less desirable to work for the Evil Empire.

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by dwynings »

mistermann wrote: post #36
minimaxir wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DiffBot appears to be different (pun intended). Even when implementing your own scraper, you still have to understand the inherent structure/organization of the webpage. DiffBot appears to do that automatically, which could be a timesaver if it works reliably without significant data fidelity issues . I put the HN front page through their Discussion API Test Drive...and it identifies submission elements except submis…

Just throwing this out there in case you happen to know....I've always wanted this ability to scrape stock discussion forums. Just one example (there are probably 3 to 10 forums I'd like to scrape eventually) is: http://www.stockhouse.com/companies/bullboard/t.y/yellow-med... Is this the type of task DiffBot could theoretically accomplish? (Running it through the API test drive suggests no.) Are there any other tools…

Yes, that's something we definitely support – you'll want to take a look at our crawler: http://www.diffbot.com/products/crawlbot/

If you'd like me to set you up with a demo, feel free to email me: dru@diffbot.com

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by derefr »

misterrobot wrote: post #34

The worst part about Palantir is their ability to masquerade as this hip startup, as though working for them is as innocent as working for Imgur or Twitter or whatever. They recruit the hell out of MIT students, and it sucks seeing my friends interview for this incredibly shitty company that has openly said it won't go public since that would make running their business "very difficult" (hm, because you're doing repr…

> it won't go public since that would make running their business "very difficult" (hm, because you're doing reprehensible work perhaps?)

Well, more generally, anyone who has a nonstandard set of ethical beliefs, and is basing their company around that set of beliefs, can't really go public without their belief-set being thrown under the bus of their shareholders' belief-set.

For example, I've often considered starting a company in the game industry that actually hires experienced adults and treats them well, rather than hiring fresh college students and burning them out. I imagine, though, that if my hypothetical company became publicly-traded, I'd be forced to relinquish this policy in the name of short-sighted market competitiveness.

Re: Palantir acquires Kimono

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Post by stordoff »

misterrobot wrote: post #34

The worst part about Palantir is their ability to masquerade as this hip startup, as though working for them is as innocent as working for Imgur or Twitter or whatever. They recruit the hell out of MIT students, and it sucks seeing my friends interview for this incredibly shitty company that has openly said it won't go public since that would make running their business "very difficult" (hm, because you're doing repr…

On one hand, Palantir have (at best) questionable connections and I wouldn't be a rush to work for them. On the other, with the level of pay/benefits they provide, I'm not surprised they can find people without similar qualms (or people who overlook or aren't aware of them).

I won't share specifics (as they aren't mine to share), but I have a friend working for Palantir overseas. Once essential benefits (e.g. accommodation) are factored in, his salary is north of six figures (GBP). For someone only a few years past university, I imagine that sort of offer is difficult to refuse.

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