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That's a shame, I was hoping to be able to use these for interactive learning. Requiring signup is a showstopper for me. :(
If requiring signup is a showstopper how are you posting on HN?
Did not expect this to happen with Microsoft. Giving away access to a public Jupyter Server (open source project) Running it in Linux (Ubuntu) and letting users have a play with it. I for one am super happy to play with it however long this lasts. Some info so far. !free -h total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 55G 7.5G 26G 70M 21G 44G Swap: 99G 0B 99G !uname -a Linux nbserver 4.4.0-51-generic #72-Ubuntu S…
[msft] :). Interestingly enough, the decision to use linux/docker was a no-brainer. I know from the outside it might seem odd, but these days, the attitude (and rightly so) is: use the language/stack/OS/toolchain/etc. you need to get your job done. I think you'll see an explosion of Linux/Python/Java/Go/... internally & externally on Azure. Data point - our team (Python), wanted to hold a "Python day @ msft" event to…
I'm a performance guy at my work responsible for making sure our Filesystem (Huge codebase of C, and bits of C++), making use of Python to quickly write scripts for Performance data analysis. Right tool for the job.
It is interesting to think about how many use cases there are in this ecosystem where that hard attention to performance is "wanted" but not needed. Could I write my scripts in a complied language and save two seconds of execution time? Yes, but I finished two more tasks in the time it would've taken to do it.
I use notebooks a lot, but with Julia. In any case, this is <3 amazing news !
https://github.com/Microsoft/AzureNotebooks
(user request > our wishes)
This is amazing, I had set up a jupyter hub using some docker hacks to allow my students to access their own personal instance(running inside a new container) using github login. This might be a good low-cost alternative. Thanks Azure!
Awesome! Cambridge University (Dr Wells) just did that. Here's their notebook:
https://notebooks.azure.com/library/CUED-IA-Computing-Michae...
A professionally maintained, sufficiently sandboxed Jupyter environment could be awesome for people who want to work on and share Jupyter notebooks, but not be responsible for servers.
One of my physics major friends uses a Chromebook (and a shitty Windows laptop he prefers not to deal with). I set up a DigitalOcean droplet for him to run Jupyter. One of the big problems is that it's not safe for him to share Jupyter notebooks by URL, since anyone to whom he discloses the web UI password gets remote code execution (exec and friends work). A professionally maintained, sufficiently sandboxed Jupyter…
Sharing is basic now (ie unlisted-URL), but proper support (public/private/ro/etc) is coming soon.
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[msft] :). Interestingly enough, the decision to use linux/docker was a no-brainer. I know from the outside it might seem odd, but these days, the attitude (and rightly so) is: use the language/stack/OS/toolchain/etc. you need to get your job done. I think you'll see an explosion of Linux/Python/Java/Go/... internally & externally on Azure. Data point - our team (Python), wanted to hold a "Python day @ msft" event to…
Maybe it runs on Linux because jupyterhub does not work on Windows, not even on Linux subsystem? Microsoft ported docker to Windows, please do the same with jupyterhub!
RE Jupyterhub on Windows - if enough customers want it, I'm sure it can be done. Not convinced the demand is there yet. If you have data I'd love to see it!
Thanks.
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If requiring signup is a showstopper how are you posting on HN?
Having taught after school programs for kids, it definitely is a barrier to entry. I'd not say it's a show stopper, but it's definitely a hassle. Even more relevant when the folks needing to sign up, "can't" easily (due to COPPA).