Juliabox

#1

Post by tokai » Sun, Sep 07, 2014, 12:27 PM UTC

Juliabox
juliabox.org

Re: Juliabox

#2

Post by switch33 » Sun, Sep 07, 2014, 1:34 PM UTC

Why must this require google login at all? It should not be mandatory. . .

Re: Juliabox

#3

Post by tokai » Sun, Sep 07, 2014, 1:49 PM UTC

switch33 wrote: post #2

Why must this require google login at all? It should not be mandatory. . .

No idea, but Google groups are central to the Julia community. Guess they just like to use google. We could fork it and do another login if we wanted to escape google. https://github.com/JuliaLang/JuliaBox

Re: Juliabox

#4

Post by Blahah » Sun, Sep 07, 2014, 3:16 PM UTC

When I sign in I just get returned to the home page and invited to sign in again. Anyone know how to reach the good stuff?

Edit: from the JuliaBox README [0]:

- Not recommended to host on the public internet just yet.

- Security is mostly a TODO at this time.

- Docker itself is undergoing changes in its API. Since we pull in the latest docker, changes in the docker API may break JuliaBox at any time.

So it seems this is not really ready for demo yet - perhaps prematurely posted to HN. Look forward to seeing it when it's ready.

[0] https://github.com/JuliaLang/JuliaBox/blob/master/README.md

Re: Juliabox

#5

Post by spaznode » Sun, Sep 07, 2014, 3:16 PM UTC

I clicked on the sign-in via google but then nothing else happened after authorizing identifying me..

No email, nothing. Maybe they are understandably experiencing some high loads or something. It'd be nice to quickly update web page to state that though if true.

UPDATE: Never mind, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8281116

Re: Juliabox

#6

Post by aioprisan » Sun, Sep 07, 2014, 3:17 PM UTC

What is Juliabox? The landing page itself does not say anything about what the product actually is and what the benefits of signing up are.

Re: Juliabox

#7

Post by spaznode » Sun, Sep 07, 2014, 3:18 PM UTC

tokai wrote: post #3

switch33 wrote: post #2

Why must this require google login at all? It should not be mandatory. . .

No idea, but Google groups are central to the Julia community. Guess they just like to use google. We could fork it and do another login if we wanted to escape google. https://github.com/JuliaLang/JuliaBox

Ah, thanks.

Re: Juliabox

#8

Post by curiouslearn » Sun, Sep 07, 2014, 3:18 PM UTC

I clicked on "Sign in via Google" button. It asked me for permission to access some information. Then went back to the original homepage; the one that still asks me to sign in. Now, if I click on "Sign in via Google" nothing happens. Also, nothing else on the page is clickable. How do I try it out?

Re: Juliabox

#9

Post by spaznode » Sun, Sep 07, 2014, 3:23 PM UTC

switch33 wrote: post #2

Why must this require google login at all? It should not be mandatory. . .

I don't think the kind of people who would be interested in this project really care about having to sign in to google.

Re: Juliabox

#10

Post by sebg » Sun, Sep 07, 2014, 3:25 PM UTC

aioprisan wrote: post #6

What is Juliabox? The landing page itself does not say anything about what the product actually is and what the benefits of signing up are.

Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing => http://julialang.org/

From the front page => Run Julia from the Browser. No setup.

This means that you can run the programming language from the browser without having to install Julia and the various dependencies onto your system. You can just run it from the your browser.