JupyterLab is ready for users • Hacker News Board

Re: JupyterLab is ready for users

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Post by aj7 » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 6:44 PM UTC

nerdponx wrote: post #12

pmart123 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who used Matlab and Mathematica in college, I'm not sure I'd want to have a closed source solution really take off again at this point. While they provided great products and documentation, they also made it much more difficult to share code/visualizations due to restrictive and expensive licensing. Ultimately, I think the ability to share information easily should help spur scientific advancement.

As a single piece of anecdata, this is exactly what prevented me from using the free licenses I had through my university to learn these programs. After my experiences with Stata, seeing the non-affiliated prices and having to do my work in a computer lab instead of on my own laptop, I didn't want to be tied to software that I might not have access to in the future, and that I couldn't share with other people. The on…

Dumping SolidWorks for the less elegant but much cheaper Fusion360 for the same reason. You can’t build a community at corporate license prices.

Re: JupyterLab is ready for users

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Post by carreau » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 6:46 PM UTC

gdelfino01 wrote: post #139

With no support for Microsoft IE or Edge, this cannot be used in numerous enterprise environments where installing alternative browsers is not allowed.

No support does not mean that it won't work. As this is an open-source and free tool, the support is announced only for the publicly available code which is regularly tested and fixed. Now if a company want to pitch in, and sell IE/Edge support that would be great. Even better would be windows developers to contribute fixes back until the quality and regular fixes on IE/Edge make it possible to officially say they are supported.

Re: JupyterLab is ready for users

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Post by qacek » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 6:46 PM UTC

tzakrajs wrote: post #135

Give me collaborative editing please. It's a great potential feature for pair programming or instructing with Jupyter.

Have you tried https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-google-drive?

Re: JupyterLab is ready for users

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Post by coding123 » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 6:46 PM UTC

danielvf wrote: post #46

I'll be teaching a group of nine and ten years olds to code. I'm planning on using Jupyter. What I'd really like to do is make a multiplayer naval game, with each player controlling their ship from their own notebook. Players would start out by running commands like fire(range=400, bearing=120) right from a cell, but would later be able automate their ship - for example, pick the nearest enemy, get the range, and plu…

This is actually a good idea for this age range. If this was a college class I would recommend a more traditional programming environment, but this should be just about as cool as you can get if you can pull off the networking.

Re: JupyterLab is ready for users

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Post by carreau » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 6:46 PM UTC

laserson wrote: post #112

Is it possible to have a notebook and a console using a single, shared kernel?

Yes.

Re: JupyterLab is ready for users

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Post by carreau » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 6:48 PM UTC

wodenokoto wrote: post #10

This looks like it could be quite the competitor to RStudio!

Complementary ! We love R-Studio (and JupyterHub can run R-Studio). R-Studio is still more tightly integrated with R, but we are progressing.

It would be great to have community plugins that make R-Studio able to open Jupyter files, and JupyterLab open R-Studio files !

Re: JupyterLab is ready for users

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Post by qacek » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 6:48 PM UTC

Myrmornis wrote: post #127

Is it clear yet how one will use text editors (emacs, vim) with JupyterLab?

Are you referring to editing text files or in notebooks?

Re: JupyterLab is ready for users

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Post by almostkorean » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 6:49 PM UTC

madengr wrote: post #5

Is there a way to integrate a debugger and browse variables? I have been using Spyder for casual programming, and don’t think I could do without a debugger.

My coworker was a Spyder user for years, but recently switched to PyCharm because they added "Scientific Mode" in PyCharm Professional

Re: JupyterLab is ready for users

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Post by carreau » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 6:49 PM UTC

ChrisRackauckas wrote: post #88

Excited for a new Julia IDE. Seems like it's a nice interactive style which surprisingly doesn't feel like it has the kludge of the notebooks.

We don't have enough Julia developers involved ! It would be great to have more feedback and patches !

Re: JupyterLab is ready for users

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Post by esmi » Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 6:50 PM UTC

tsaoyu wrote: post #87

pmart123 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who used Matlab and Mathematica in college, I'm not sure I'd want to have a closed source solution really take off again at this point. While they provided great products and documentation, they also made it much more difficult to share code/visualizations due to restrictive and expensive licensing. Ultimately, I think the ability to share information easily should help spur scientific advancement.

Mathematica/Python/MATLAB user. Mathematica and MATLAB do both have great documentation and intuitive examples shipped with their product, however, document your own code using their system is surprisingly hard (compared to Sphinx). Jupyter learnt the idea of the notebook from Mathematica (and some other notebook based math software) but the killer point is that it extends itself to more and more general purpose prog…

My workflow is very similar. But I am often forced to use matlab for simulation because the vendors I work with only deliver matlab libraries. They choose matlab because many engineers know how to use it and have licenses for it but also it gives mechanisms to protect IP which is a big deal to many firms.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/protect-yo...