News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

foresight

Re:Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @01:37AM (#14600932)
If you are a hiring manager for top-tier ML experts, why would you be trying to inflate market value with outrageous claims?
Re:Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy feature on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @05:43PM (#12552527)
This reads like fake smoke and mirrors to trick investors/data providers/participants instead of anything that's real cryptographically.
Re:Palantir acquires Kimono on Monday February 15, 2016 @06:52PM (#11106963)
I'm always disappointed when I read of Palantir acquihires.

Technically talented employees receive a pittance and are sold into the Palantir machine, a morally unscrupulous high-tech consulting shop that takes in talented engineers and churns out one-off software black boxes designed to lock in customers and extract a long-term tax.