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AIQ Investments - Park City, UT

QA Engineer/Sys Admin/Jr. Developer

We are looking for a candidate with strong Linux system administration skills and some application development experience including automated testing and dynamic scripting languages to fill a Testing & Systems Administration position at our financial start-up. The successful candidate would become an integral part of a small, fast-paced team and would be expected to wear multiple hats, including everything from working on hardware maintenance of our super computer to helping fill a QA vacancy on the primary development team. We want someone who enjoys working hard and learning new things, but also does well in an environment with a lot of freedom and self supervision. We currently have a small, tight-knit team but are poised to scale up quickly, so this position has a lot of potential for growth for the right candidate. We've got some pretty impressive hardware resources to play with, and we respect powder days.

Necessary Skills:

* Demonstrated experience working with and administering Linux installations (Fedora/Red Hat preferred)

* Demonstrated experience developing software including automated testing

Nice to Have:

* Experience with Groovy, Bash, JavaScript, and Python scripting and development

* Web application development experience using a modern framework like Node.js, Rails, Django, or Grails

* Familiarity with Spock testing framework for Groovy

* Experience managing a grid compute environment (SunGrid)
VPN administration experience

* Experience building computers and working with server hardware

About Us:

We are a financial start-up located in Park City, UT capitalizing on exponentially improving processing power and machine learning algorithms to disrupt the money management industry. We combine state-of-the-art hardware (we've got our own, in-house GPU super computer) with a variety of machine learning techniques to develop data-inspired investment strategies. We strive for a "Work Hard, Play Hard" mentality and live in Park City for a reason - some of the best skiing, mountain biking, and hiking in the country is located right outside of our office. If you're looking for a relatively entry-level position with a lot of potential for advancement outside of the Bay Area bubble, we want to hear from you.

If this sounds interesting, submit your resume, cover letter, github profile (if applicable) and/or code sample to jobs@aiqinvestments.com. We'd love to hear details of any projects (professional or academic) that you're proud of and had an important/lead role in bringing to fruition too.

If you have any other questions, feel free to contact me personally by email (see profile)
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Cognitive Science Meets Pre-Algebra
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Linux 3.11 for Workstations has been released
> That still leaves out upgrades. Whereas for the custom build it's just a matter of yanking out the failed part and putting in a new one at cost

I can sell a $3000 iMac for $2000 two years down the track; making the upgrade "cost" $1000. It'd cost me roughly the same to buy a GTX 770 (AUD$500), a new i7 Haswell and a 128GB SSD, which are effectively the major upgrades between my 2011 iMac and the (predicted specifications) of the 2013 refresh. And then I have to hope that someone else has tested those parts before I have!
why can't this (three polarizers) be explained classically? googling turns up this explanation, for example http://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=16544 or this one http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/14/polaroid.htm
Having written a mobile app framework targeting both UIWebView (iOS) and WebView, and several apps with a single codebase for both platforms, this can't come soon enough. The current Android-Browser-based WebView uses a disgustingly out of date WebKit release, while the iOS UIWebView is basically the current Mobile Safari version with a few features disabled.

The sad state of WebView is the biggest cause of difficulty writing cross platform HTML5/JS apps, even more so than device hardware fragmentation.
Poll shows R is most used language for Data Science
The idea of using "B-list" companies makes me a bit disgusted honestly. Have we put ourselves on such pedestals that we use other people's valuable time as unknowing practice runs? I would never interview somewhere I was not interested in working.
Release annoucement: http://lwn.net/Articles/565482/
It seems like the Mac Mini was dismissed too quickly. It and the Air have i7s, but the one in the Mac Mini has four cores. The geekbench numbers look to be about 1000 units(?) under the hackintosh he built, so ~8% performance loss for considerably less hassle. The Mini is more expensive as well, but will hold its value much better than the hackintosh if he wants the new Mac Pro in a couple of years.
I don't agree with your hardline ethics. This is one of the big points raised in "Les Miserables". Stealing a loaf of bread when you're starving is qualitatively different from corporate banking behavior. Humane empathy to the unfortunates is bigger than priniciples.

Here's another twist - by refusing to pay fair wages, the employer is stealing from the employee. "Hark in thine ear: change places and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?" - King Lear
Seems to boot fine in qemu if anybody would like to have a quick play with it, though it's fairly useless until I figure out how the network adaptor works.
> Kind of off topic

No, good point actually! (I was commenting on OP's speculation that a hackintosh might make more sense in the US)
As a lot of the system already uses python, looks like lamson might be a good fit:

http://lamsonproject.org/

I'd love to hear more about why a whole new distribution, rather than some management tools on top of something like raspbian?

I understand that targeting a single platform is easier -- for an OS distribution -- but it sounds like what you actually want is an application server on top of a base os -- one that allows for a few standard tasks (email, web etc).

Why reinvent all the other parts of the stack?
The interesting thing is that there are multiple accents within American English.I have seen northerners make fun of southern accents and vice versa.And even in the south a Charleston accent is different from one from Atlanta.So which is the best accent for a founder to have?
They said the people working for government and big corps wouldn't be subject to the license. The very people most likely to be writing or verifying code that might hurt people are exempted under some hand waiving "big corps will certify themselves", under some sort of code review process or something. So why don't they just certify themselves? Why the license?

And it's not my side job anymore. It's my full livelihood. It doesn't seem any of this has teeth yet, but when will it? And yearly fees? This is so obviously nothing more than rent seeking.

Fuck it, I'll just move. Oh, wait, I can't. My wife has an electrical engineering job with a branch of the government. They also are not required to license themselves, and they write code that affects more lives than I do.
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DuckDuckGo uses favicons in the way you described: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=favicon
I thought favicon is W3C standard. It's not standardized yet! I can't find any specs for it!
Actually, there's a fairly sensible way to view the statement "trust, but verify" -- think of it as a policy of entering agreements without doing the necessary vetting / clearing / what have you in advance. You still do that, but afterwards. As long as the people you're working with are trustworthy, things will run much more smoothly, but if they're not, you'll still find out. That "verify" step is important to maintaining trustworthiness all around.
> If you only know HTML and CSS, you aren't a "programmer" because you don't have the tools and knowledge it takes to write programs that do any nontrivial computation.

This is not a requirement for being a "programmer." It never has been.

> If you only know Python, you don't have the tools and knowledge it takes to make an attractive static website.

Nor, um, do you necessarily have the tools to do anything...
After reading the landing page, I still don't know what this is. Is it a backup service?
Copenhagen's bike share bikes have Android tablets built-in
It says a lot about the value of cross-platform and zero-deployment that developers put up with Javascript and HTML as an application development platform.

It also says a lot about what is not valued: a consistent UI paradigm (Bootstrap not withstanding), a rich suite of client-supplied services, multi-tasking, static typing.

Javascript is just what you have to put up with to get access to everything else.
HTC employees detained amid trade-secret investigation
Black Hawk Down has a scene where the difficulty of containing such injuries is illustrated very graphically: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gixRgsPFR7g

It's incredibly difficult to stop such bleeding and having such device will undoubtedly save lives on and off battle fields. For example in bad car wrecks.
Permalink: http://ruthlessray.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/inventing-favico...
Aren't programmers more like the engineers who made the cars? Their work product is not just the design but the assembly line and the process, and those things help produce parts and cars. The autoworkers are more analogous to the people who work within software-controlled workplaces. That would be the people who pack boxes at Amazon.com, or do data entry, or customer support.
Software generation is automated but when people are talking about software development they mean (technical) design. Design isn't a commodity or product but a one-off process and therefore by definition cannot be automated. The underlying topic isn't about automation of software development - it's about buy vs build, and as ever that depends on specific requirements and circumstances.
Lots of raw material. Pun intended.

Also, several occasions where it's impossible to apply the tried and true, so some medic has to hack a new solution to an old problem from what's available on site, and, one time out of n, it actually works. Not that this is the case.
Interesting project. Wondering whether that guy would join a compaign team
Yes, downvotes don't change the truth of the observation because it was never true. Your observation is unfortunately based on a typical fallacy.

Android has always been, and still is meaningfully open. Google apps are closed source and proprietary. You don't have to use Google services and Google apps.

Almost every single Android app in the Play Store (including the Play Store itself) has always been closed source and proprietary. Nothing really changed. Apps that are related to core functionality are open source and free software. Stock dialer, stock browser etc. are all such examples.
"[...] in the attention zone [...]"

Are you serious, dude?

Politics and the English Language.
Warrants are required in the UK, though there are special exceptions such as when a serious or dangerous incident, agreed its open ended but the onus is on the Police officer to prove it and entering without one is unheard of in my experience, the source below provides more detail, and is a reliable source:

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/england/law_e/law_legal_system...
His javascript based analytics software has all the numbers.
Someone did a calculation and decided that the business cost of supporting IE was worth the additional customers. It's not about balls, it's about cost benefit analysis. Us developers just hate IE because it's so different than all the other browsers.

also it sucks.
I was commenting on your speculation that it might make more financial sense in the US - to give you an example GTX 770 is USD 399 and the top of the line stock iMac is $1999 before tax and I can only upgrade it to GTX 685 which runs me $150. So yeah in the US I think it is not as clear cut as it is in your case.
They tried that before, and we got fragmentation. Play Services is supposed to be the solution to that. I think it very well might be a huge improvement.
I think it's sort of tack-on storage for media.
> it's still orders of magnitude more open than any of
> the other mobile OS available on the market.

Symbian? OpenMoko? The upcoming SailfishOS, Tizen, Firefox OS, and Ubuntu phone? Oh, you meant in the U.S., I guess. (Yes, I know that all the above have either already largely failed or have sketchy futures. That's an entirely different kettle of fish.)

> Open source fanatics are impossible to satisfy

All I want is the ability to make arbitrary changes to the software running on my phone. Why is that so hard?
Isn't five dollars a day more than double the UN poverty line - even today??
That's the wrong question. The very nature of software is automate jobs including software jobs and has since the very beginning. A programmer today is easily one or more orders of magnitude more productive as a programmer 20 years ago. We're all producing much more software with fewer people.

The question is when will the demand for software be low enough that this ongoing process will reduce the number of programmer jobs.
It shows contempt for and fear of privacy advocates, who are a small minority of the people they were hired to serve.
I know I'm an edge case here, but for me it'd be my DS. We're nowhere near significant marketshare, but we do exist.

In fairness, that says more about my phone than my DS, I think.
It's not quite as bad, but close. Open-source Android is a full-stack operating system, the problem is that as far as everyone is concerned, that's not enough. You need an ecosystem of apps and services (from maps, to push, to youtube, to .. ) to have a competitive mobile platform.

If I was a betting man, I would go long on Google.
My summer internship at Khan Academy
Making things easier for people never actually helped them.

You'd lose a lot of people as a lifeguard.
The article clearly states that new platform APIs are showing up in Google Play services instead of in core Android. The article mentions this as a benefit - 3rd party app developers get access to new APIs quickly and consistently across all Android devices.

The downside is the new APIs are showing up in the closed-source Google Play services, and not in the open source Android project.
I am still using a MacBook Pro from 2007... still runs the latest version of OS X (although I wonder if it is going to get dropped this next round).

Yes, it is slow compared to the newer machines, but it has lasted a hell of a long time!
It's a tent.io (https://tent.io/) hosting service. Basically, if I understand it correctly, tents are personal servers where different applications run that can communicate with other tents. So for example if there were a social networking application running on your tent, if someone else viewed your profile, the data would come from your tent, not from some third party server that you don't have access to. And this service provides hosting of said tents. That's my understanding, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

EDIT: Seems like I was not that far off. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tent_(protocol)
cupcake.is.ambiguous
What is MEGA?
> so integer factorization is in NP

I never said it wasn't.

> And a breakthrough in P?=NP could have implications for factorization.

Indeed, but what's implied in the article is that they might have made a breakthrough in factorization specifically, not in fundamental CS theory at large.
Do you really think the DBA for a project that doesn't official exist gets to write consumer protection policy?

Can you imagine any nontechnical organization doing something as complicated as passing a law just to cut down on database joins? Seriously?
"I think the plan is probably to take everything related to UX into the closed part, that Samsung, HTC and etc. won't then be able to change to create their own UX,"

I doubt it. The manufacturers would revolt at that point, and potentially fork the entire platform.
So the idea is it's app.net but storage instead of messaging?
I don't see what the issue is. It seems to me that the OEMs are still perfectly able to build their own skins and bundle their own apps. They just can't let their recently released devices rot with outdated tech.

Not to mention that if OEMs completely leave Android, they lose the app ecosystem. Having already launched an Android app store was a big boost to for the Kindle Fire. Not many other companies can pull that off though.
I never really got why they kept so much of Android open-source. It didn't seem to make sense both from Google's business perspective and from the user's end. Why does Google need to let companies like Amazon create competing platforms using their operating system? And why do they need to be so beholden to the OEMs? It makes sense they're moving more functionality away from it.

(See my question here: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Google-make-Android-open-source )
Well, everybody is in some kind of minority... But that's not the point.

Are you sure about your numbers? How do you know that people with javascript disabled are a minority? Or, more specifically, how do you measure that without requiring javascript?

I'm all for making web applications that need javascript. But let's do it for the right reasons, not because "everybody has javascript installed".
I'm not all that familiar with app.net but as far as I know they still host your data no? Like if you upload a picture or something, it's still on their servers. I think that with tent, it's hosted on your server. It's much closer to email where you can host your own server or have someone host it.
It is a replacement for BIOS that first showed up on Itanium platforms. It adds quite a bit of complexity but also opens the door for new features like secure boot.

I won't argue whether it is useful but it is in nearly all new desktop hardware including all Apple x86 hardware. It is here to stay.
I've been trying to post as many good articles/blog posts/tutorials/videos to reddit.com/r/angularjs (I am one of the moderators now). I'm essentially using the subreddit as a bookmark store for myself, and others are participating as well and we have started to really become a solid source for high quality Angular content.

We've been growing at a rate of about 100 subscribers a month, which is awesome. I think as we grow and continue to store everything in this one place, we'll have a good place for people looking to really dig into Angular to start at.
I'm pretty sure you can buy most 3DS or WiiU games as downloads these days, if that's what you mean. Personally I like my 3DS carts. WiiU discs less so, 'cause I don't already have the WiiU in my hands/can't fit the discs in my pockets.
It looks like their 2014 internships haven't quite opened up, is that right?
It is built on the http://tent.io protocol which is like Despora (https://despora.de/) or StatusNet (http://status.net/), where it is a decentralized social network. This use to be called http://tent.is, which was the first working 'example' twitter-like application of the protocol, but now I am assuming they wanted to create a business model, so they will offer storage on top of their twitter-like app, which will be accessed via tent protocol by other applications to store content (photos, videos, status messages, etc.)
I was thinking about that and I think you're right as far as the overall numbers go, but the intern group is really small (it was <20 when I was there), so the entropy in the distribution would be higher than Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Amazon.

And yeah I agree, as much as you like your first internship, switching it up for the second is usually a good idea because that mobility is harder when working full-time.
Why would you think that? Looks like they went out of their way to be disrespectful to the tomb of one of the intellectual leaders of their enemy. This is consistent with the US military policy of treating the various artifacts Saddam's government (up to and including the actual bodies of Saddam and his family) as illegitimate and not worthy of respect.
I am not the poster you are replying to, but one other reason I always choose Mac Pro is the ECC RAM.

This may be mostly superstition on my part, but the fact that it can correct when cosmic rays from outer space[1] flip arbitrary bits in my computers' RAM really satisfies me.

I have tried to use spare Mac Minis or notebooks as servers, too. Among my couple dozen Macs, nothing other than a Mac Pro has ever had a > 1 year uptime when really being used.

Don't really know that it's the ECC RAM, but I'm sticking with it.

[1]: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/rl/articles/ser-050323-talk-r...
Prototypo: the font generator [video]
> The real keys are that your Android device is locked down, fixing it voids your warranty

That's not an issue about Android though, it's an issue with manufacturers.You are free to release an Android device that is not locked down.
When this baby his 93 mph, you're going to see some serious shit.
"MBAs that are working on something more complex than yet another social network will immediately look for an engineer."

Put bluntly, I think that both Groupon and Zappos started as glorified Wordpress installs.

I don't think that the average complexity for business programs is going to change--at their core, most all of them have the business proposition "Take my X so I can get Y in time Z". Everything else is window dressing.
I also enjoyed those stories on his blog.

He also wrote a lot about the early days of science fiction in his 1978 memoir, The Way the Future Was. I was particularly fascinated by his association with the Futurians, a NY-based science fiction club which included Isaac Asimov, James Blish, and Cyril Kornbluth.

http://www.worldcat.org/title/way-the-future-was-a-memoir/oc...
I'd say that Google does quite a bit more by providing the user layer too, if people want it. It's kind of the best of both worlds between Apple's OS X strategy and Microsoft's Windows strategy: open core and available for OEM hardware.
How do you differentiate a user using NoScript from a bot dismissed as a browser?

If just I look at my logs, more than 90% of the access are from Firefox and don't run Javascript.
I think disgusting is a bit strong of a term.

The same logic can be used when applying to college (a very similar process). You apply to a bunch of schools, some of which you don't want to go to. If you have your heart set on Stanford and you don't get in, you still need to go to college somewhere.

I guess the advantage of interviewing at companies that at first glance you wouldn't want to work at, means that sometimes you get convinced by talking to the great people there. I've joined at least one company that wasn't initially my first choice for this exact reason.
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I used to work with a guy who would omit a few vowels in one of those gigantzor java-hostage symbol names, like AbstractTemplateSignalsProviderFactoryBn, as if leaving the "ea" out of "Bean" had helped anyone at all.
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