Hack Week is a hallowed tradition at Palantir, a time when all scheduled work stops and our engineers spend a week exploring new ideas, playing with different technologies, and building something from the ground up. People from across the company form ad-hoc teams and scramble to complete projects in one week of frenzied coding. In the video above, we take a quick look at Hack Week 2012.
A Grameen Foundation Community Knowledge worker speaks with a Ugandan farmer. A piece recently published on both the Scientific American and Fast Company’s CoExist websites highlights our most recent work with the Grameen Foundation. We participated in Hacking for Hunger, a first-of-its-kind hackathon held by the Office of Innovation & Development Alliances at USAID, which [...]
Since our earliest days, the people that make up Palantir have always been passionate about two things: building the best technology to change the way that people relate to data and deploying that technology to the organizations with the data and mission to make a real difference. As we built our business, we started looking [...]
Palantir Technologies Interns, 2011 As we roll into the peak of internship season, it seems like a worthwhile time to talk about just what it is that interns do in their time at Palantir: our software engineering interns are full members of the development team from the day they arrive. During their time with us, [...]
We’re big fans of open source. Libraries from Apache, Google, and various projects hosted on SourceForge.net make up a significant fraction of the third-party code we use to build our products. We’re proud to be making our first set of open source releases with these two projects: Cinch and Sysmon. We think it’s the right [...]
We talk a lot about Human-Computer Symbiosis on this blog – it’s a systems design approach that guides us in our construction of our technology stacks. Given that, we’re always on the lookout for example of HCS systems built by other people. Here’s an unlikely example: the layout of names in the memorial was made [...]
A few months back, Kevin introduced us to the Hedgehog Programming language – (here’s the post if you missed it). The Palantir Finance programming language — Hedgehog as we know it — is an interpreted, statically typed, object-oriented language. With a syntax that’s based loosely on Java, it mixes roughly Java-style semantics and a few [...]
Late last year, we were honored to be invited to talk at Reflections|Projections, ACM@UIUC’s annual student-run computing conference. We decided to bring a talk about Horizon, our system for doing aggregate analysis and filtering across very large amounts of data. The video of the talk was posted a few weeks back on the conference website. [...]
Cyber security is a hot topic, especially in national security circles. The world has witnessed a number of high-profile incidents in the past two years that have been notable for sharing three very important aspects: they were targeted attacks, carried out against specific institutions they were politically motivated, and, inconclusively, appear to be state-sponsored they [...]
Visualizing SMS hotspots in days following the earthquake in Palantir. Screenshot courtesy of Palantir Technologies [Editor's Note: an edited version of this post first appeared on O'Reilly's Radar blog.] The prologue was an earthquake of unexpected magnitude and location that left 250,000 dead. As computer scientists and technologists, we’re used to dealing with large numbers [...]
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