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esigler

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email: eric@openai.com
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esigler··on Launch HN: GoLinks (YC W19) – Internal short links for teams
We've been using golinks.io for a few months now at my current employer, and it's been very well received by folks, with both technical and non-technical users adopting it quickly.

Variable links are very useful - links like "go/monitoring/alpha", "go/monitoring/beta" (with a template "go/monitoring/$1 -> $1.example.com"), make it super easy to keep things up to date.

esigler··on Reinforcement Learning with Prediction-Based Rewards
Note also there are many other repositories available in https://github.com/openai from various papers & projects, such as https://github.com/openai/baselines.
esigler··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)
The roles definitely aren't sacrosanct. Teams (& individuals) change and evolve over time, and there's plenty of work to be done. :) Having said that, I might suggest the Fellows program if someone is serious about becoming a researcher - it's a good way to leverage your existing skills while learning how to do AI research.
esigler··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)
OpenAI | Infrastructure Engineer | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE, FULL-TIME

OpenAI is building safe Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and ensuring it leads to a good outcome for humans.

The team I'm on is hiring for Infrastructure Engineers to help with things like scaling Kubernetes to 2,500 nodes and beyond: https://blog.openai.com/scaling-kubernetes-to-2500-nodes/

We work in Terraform, Chef, Golang, Ruby, Python, and across the stack as needed. We use existing tools instead of reinventing the wheel when it makes sense, and when we build new tools we often open-source them: https://github.com/openai/kubernetes-ec2-autoscaler

You can find out more at https://openai.com/jobs/, & I'm happy to answer questions via email, ping me at eric@openai.com.

esigler··on Decommissioning Otto
We use Serf for infrastructure command propagation ("Chef, go converge on host X", "Docker, start running container Y on host Z") across our entire staging and production sets of hosts, and Consul for holding most of our network topology information across three different geographic regions. Works pretty well. We're bringing in Nomad (edit: and Vault) now, though they still have a few rough spots.
esigler··on Slack introduces message buttons
We've been using this internally as the integration was developed. Having a message continue to change to show updates is super useful, and is a nice way to avoid spamming a channel with changes / cuts down on the "noise".
esigler··on Lita, the ChatOps framework for Ruby, version 4 released
The testability of Lita plugins via RSpec is super helpful, and it's great to see things like route matching get addressed & improved with this release.
esigler··on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (June 2012)
San Francisco, CA - Minted

Frontend & backend developers needed!

Minted is a social commerce site, crowd-sourcing graphic designs and art from around the world. Behind the scenes, we're running Python on MySQL running in EC2 and Rackspace environments.

We provide competitive compensation, generous benefits, and a brightly lit office environment that's 5 minutes walking distance from the Ferry Building in downtown San Francisco. We're backed by Benchmark Capital & IDG Ventures, among others.

See http://www.minted.com/jobs for more, or send me an email at eric@minted.com

esigler··on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (May 2012)
San Francisco, CA - Minted

Frontend & backend developers needed!

Minted is a social commerce site, crowd-sourcing graphic designs and art from around the world. Behind the scenes, we're running Python and PHP, on MySQL running in EC2 and Rackspace environments.

We provide competitive compensation, generous benefits, and a brightly lit office environment that's 5 minutes walking distance from the Ferry Building in downtown San Francisco. We're backed by Benchmark Capital & IDG Ventures, among others.

See http://www.minted.com/jobs for more, or send me an email at eric@minted.com

esigler··on Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went?
Similar (though not as extreme) behavior has occurred in the past:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110726001259/http://diveintomar...