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Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients

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Re: Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients

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Post by throwaway2048 »

lawl wrote: post #27

Copy paste of Joe_Doe's comment. Which seems dead but sais "[noobtor]" instead of [dead]. Never seen that before?! However should he have registered via tor to leak a bit of insider info I don't want to let this die because of tor flagging. ---------- Palantir is trying to raise another ~400mm to finance their operations. And I honestly think this just another PR stunt to attract investors. The 'secretive' attitude i…

noobtor is a tor account less than 3 weeks old, all its posts will be auto killed until that time has passed

Re: Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients

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Post by capkutay »

fishcakes wrote: post #36
capkutay wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Every new contract requires dozen extra people." I've heard this as well. They essentially hire customer-facing engineers to go out and scope specific contracts and literally implement custom solutions with small generic software frameworks they developed in house.

On one hand, it is true they deploy people to implement the software. On the other hand, the customer has results after 6-8 weeks. How much software can really be built in that sort of time frame? Not much... In my opinion Palantir is a product company, but the product is deeply integrated in to an enterprise. And doing that takes time and people.

I would debate that...if your 'product' takes a team of stanford engineers to actually deploy at an enterprise, then it's probably closer to a dev framework.

Re: Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients

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Post by dang »

lawl wrote: post #27

Copy paste of Joe_Doe's comment. Which seems dead but sais "[noobtor]" instead of [dead]. Never seen that before?! However should he have registered via tor to leak a bit of insider info I don't want to let this die because of tor flagging. ---------- Palantir is trying to raise another ~400mm to finance their operations. And I honestly think this just another PR stunt to attract investors. The 'secretive' attitude i…

Comments by new accounts posting from Tor IPs get autokilled because of past abuses by trolls. We restore the legit ones when we see them (or users tell us about them), and mark the accounts legit so future comments won't be killed. That's what I've done here.

It is more of an "under moderation" thing than a "dead" thing. It's on our list to make that explicit and to provide a mechanism for the community to make most of the moderation decisions.

Re: Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients

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Post by dang »

throwaway2048 wrote: post #51
lawl wrote: post #27

Copy paste of Joe_Doe's comment. Which seems dead but sais "[noobtor]" instead of [dead]. Never seen that before?! However should he have registered via tor to leak a bit of insider info I don't want to let this die because of tor flagging. ---------- Palantir is trying to raise another ~400mm to finance their operations. And I honestly think this just another PR stunt to attract investors. The 'secretive' attitude i…

noobtor is a tor account less than 3 weeks old, all its posts will be auto killed until that time has passed

Yes, or until we see the account and mark it legit, which usually doesn't take nearly that long. (See my comment upthread for more info.)

Re: Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients

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Post by jsprogrammer »

rdtsc wrote: post #46
lawl wrote: post #27

Copy paste of Joe_Doe's comment. Which seems dead but sais "[noobtor]" instead of [dead]. Never seen that before?! However should he have registered via tor to leak a bit of insider info I don't want to let this die because of tor flagging. ---------- Palantir is trying to raise another ~400mm to finance their operations. And I honestly think this just another PR stunt to attract investors. The 'secretive' attitude i…

Wouldn't be surprised if this is an idealisticly minded young employer. I have seen them agressively interviewing on campuses, conferences. Perhaps in light of Snowden's releases and other leaks, maybe some of them were a bit dissapointed in what they saw there and decided to do something about it...

Palantir works for NSA and is a CIA startup.

Re: Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients

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Post by jsprogrammer »

newaccountfool wrote: post #25
icpmacdo wrote: post #4

Nothing too interesting revealed in the document. Here is a video of the LAPD talking about more specific uses of Palantir, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ-u7yDwC6g Here is an interesting video from them talking about data analysis of Iranian arms deals used to show off some of their tools used by the intelligence community https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX0gwNU3WBI

It may be intrusive and it may end up being used for the wrong reasons, but as a technology community we've got to give it to them. It's very impresive.

It's impressive, but without meaningful and effective restraints on its use it's potentially dangerous. There is a large focus on secrecy seemingly within the organization itself (Palantir) and the organizations it works with (NSA, CIA, FBI, etc.). One important question is, why is Palantir arming secretive organizations with very powerful technology?

If the analysis capabilities are so great (and they appear to at least be good), then there is likely tremendously more good that can be achieved by opening up the code to the software so that anyone can use it to tackle local and global problems around the planet. Instead, the company is using it to arm secret police organizations and financial organizations.

Re: Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients

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Post by jsprogrammer »

insidious wrote: post #35
boomzilla wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to this form, Morgan Stanley charges 25M to arrange a sale of 50M. Is there something behind this, or is this normal? http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1321655/0001321655140...

There are a few other sales where there are 0 fees. So likely they "don't charge" for those and put all of the fees in a single filing.

Go, go transparency!

Re: Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients

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Post by jsprogrammer »

grumblestumble wrote: post #44
brooklyndude wrote: post #7

It is a bit ironic that Peter Thiel is backing Palantir, and is the biggest investor in the marijuana trade. They seem like opposite ends of the spectrum.

You obviously don't know too many potheads. Unbridled, foaming-at-the-mouth libertarianism seems to be the endgame of long-term marijuana-induced delirium.

Are you implying that particular chemicals drive specific ideological responses in the human brain?

Re: Leaked Palantir Doc Reveals Uses, Specific Functions and Key Clients

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Post by gaius »

jpatokal wrote: post #20

This sounds more like a leaked Palantir press release; but then again, that's pretty much what a prospectus is. > "It’s the combination of every analytical tool you could ever dream of." > The Pentagon used the software to track patterns in roadside bomb deployment and was able to conclude that garage-door openers were being used as remote detonators. > With Palantir, the Marines are now able to upload DNA samples fr…

There were similarly glowing reviews of http://www.technologyreview.com/view/510156/physicists-prove...
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