ideophobia

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by ideophobia 8y ago
It is. I did not work for palantir though, I worked as an intelligence anaylst in public sector who used Palantir in my job. Palantir does not provide analysts, generally, they just sell the software. The forward deployed engineers help ins
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by ideophobia 8y ago
From what I recall all activity is logged. We also had numerous external databases/tools that were essentially API connections to reduce the number of separate logins we'd have to do, and each of those databases had their own audi
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by ideophobia 8y ago
I was frustrated with management in my department and ended up leaving for private sector.
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by ideophobia 8y ago
You can search on or around nearly anything. That's one of their selling points to customers. The search function is multi-faceted, in that 1) it can index the data of any files you upload to Palantir (making everything text searchable
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by ideophobia 8y ago
I used to be intelligence analyst that utilized Palantir on a daily basis. Ask me anything.
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by ideophobia 9y ago
Slightly anecdotal, but I used to be a gang intelligence analyst for law enforcement. In the Commonwealth of Virginia, gangs are defined as having: 1) a shared identifiable name or shared identifying sign or symbol, 2) members who individua
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by ideophobia 9y ago
i'm imagining the better statement is 'music ownership became less relevant'
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by ideophobia 9y ago
I agree with this, but I feel like I've also seen the EFF and similar advocates cry foul when companies or governments use tools to mass monitor publicly visible user information on the internet. Genuinely asking: Is there a discernibl
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by ideophobia 9y ago
It largely depends on the size of your company and the nature of your data. There are probably 4 simplified aspects to tackle this issue from, in my opinion. I work in data protection for a Fortune 500 company. 1. Data tagging or classifica
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by ideophobia 9y ago
I like the look and style, and I think you really nailed the vinyl aesthetic. Unfortunately, I've abandoned music on my iPhone in favor of Spotify+Amazon. But, I would love to see this for non-iOS devices. If you could get it to run on
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Ask HN: Get involved in digital human rights?
1 points by ideophobia 9y ago|0 comments
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by ideophobia 10y ago
yes, but reddit now more for funny stuff or random news. HN is slowly becoming my daily driver for just general reading/topics of interest.
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by ideophobia 10y ago
Seems almost bizarrely niche in my opinion. I wouldn't pursue a HN clone unless you already have a really good grasp on an existing audience looking for this exact type of stuff. If you believe this is information that we truly all sho
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by ideophobia 10y ago
They knew it was a social media aggregation tool which collects publicly shared information. They also knew it was used by law enforcement, public safety, emergency management, first responders, ambulance authorities, search and rescue orgs