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The perks are nice. They have an onsite chef so you can have a catered meal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Apparently a masseuse comes in every month(?) or so for free massages. Seems like a nice gig for the programmers.
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Ever worked with ERP or other enterprise data products? Nothing is plug and play. These guys have to analyze data sets to first understand how to connect the dots, and then they have to integrate with whatever front-end their "product" is.
Well said. I work with Palantir guys and helping them with data sources at a large banking firm. Everything is custom, needs to be customized and then it needs to be changed every month. The magic bullet here is hard work and smart people.
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>> 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 >This attitude bothers me. Palantir is not a charity. Why are you holding them to these standards? I fail to see how that statement is an 'attitude'. I'm also not holding them to any standard in that statement. As far as I can tell, it's only a statement of fact. Or…
You're implying that they should give up their competitive edge over the market so that they can help the world "tackle local and global problems around the planet". That sounds like you're saying they should give to charity and/or forfeit profit for some noble good. And yes, it's an attitude/opinion though it sounds like you're just nitpicking words. I'm not the OP you responded to, but it's clear your attitude/opin…
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> why is Palantir arming secretive organizations with very powerful technology? They get paid handsomely. > 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 This attitude bothers me. Palantir is not a charity. Why are you holding them to these standards?
>> 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 >This attitude bothers me. Palantir is not a charity. Why are you holding them to these standards? I fail to see how that statement is an 'attitude'. I'm also not holding them to any standard in that statement. As far as I can tell, it's only a statement of fact. Or…
The statement itself is too vague to be accurate or inaccurate.
All of this indicates that there's no big mystery here - they built a relationship-analysis tool that doesn't suck horribly. When you're selling to banks and the government, "actually works as promised" is rare enough to make you a billion dollar company.
Palantir is more hush-hush about some of their work, though this seems to be more 'competitive advantage' and less 'military secrets'. New initiatives and project restructuring are kept fairly quiet, and their customer lists are obviously secret, but none of this is shocking.
TechCrunch seems to have discovered what looks like a 'secret' press release about how great Palantir is, and it's being spun as dark secrets instead of info that any Palantir employee or tech talk is happy to divulge.
I have a friend that works here. Apparently the job interview process is tough. Very technical. Tons of questions involving algorithms. I'm tempted to apply just for the challenge. The perks are nice. They have an onsite chef so you can have a catered meal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Apparently a masseuse comes in every month(?) or so for free massages. Seems like a nice gig for the programmers.
That's a bad deal. Ask for enough money to hire your own chef and masseuse instead.
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Unbelievable that this can be legal.
Could you explain to me why it's a problem or should be illegal? I don't know enough about the topic to understand your surprise that it's legal.
"Delaying" the filing of required disclosures makes it more difficult for investors and potential investors to make informed decisions, and possibly defeats the purpose of requiring its disclosure in the first place.
I have a friend that works here. Apparently the job interview process is tough. Very technical. Tons of questions involving algorithms. I'm tempted to apply just for the challenge. The perks are nice. They have an onsite chef so you can have a catered meal for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Apparently a masseuse comes in every month(?) or so for free massages. Seems like a nice gig for the programmers.
Ah, the Paypal mafia at it again. Well atleast they're bringing the money to the valley. Funny how a lot of Libertarian Thiel's companies are funded by govt. contracts. Same goes for Elon.
Yeah, and this person supposedly believing in "merit" wants you to buy into his vision based on fluff and hype.
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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…
So, in case I need to be truly anonymous on HN, I need to register by a non-tor exit node IP (say an I2P address?) post a couple of comments (but how many?) and then I can use tor freely?