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Thanks songgao! Drop an email (mine is in my profile) and Ill get you signed up on our git-powered latex editor. It has most the features you just described, and is launching soon =)
Wow, thanks! I didn't find your email in your HN profile. Here's mine: song@gao.io
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Congrats! Unfortunately, your server isn't handling the load and the google cache is a SASS error. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:knsEMz3... Got something more descriptive you can link to?
Sorry, we cross posted to reddit & HN and the response has been outstanding. Working on getting this fixed right now.
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Not currently, but this is a great idea. We may just have to add this to the roadmap
The other thing is that, IMHO, private repo for this is not good for academic, instead, make it temporarily private. People write papers to get published. They surely want as many people as possible to see it. The reason they want it to be private is to hide it from others before getting published so the ideas won't get stolen. So I'm thinking maybe set up a time limit for repos being private would be better? After t…
Anyway, a time limit is a good idea.
And anyway, when there are timestamps, it's harder to steal an idea. It actually may encourage people to write notes on things to do, share some partial proofs, etc
I'm very excited to tell people that github for science is now a thing. I'll be signing up for sure.
Hi HN! We launched a private version of Banyan to a few of you here months ago. Since then, our team has been hard at work trying to make Banyan the future of open science. Todays launch is just the start. We know we have alot of work to do. Over the next few months we plan to tackle science, reproducibility, and make existing tools more awesome through our API. I want to be as transparent as possible. Im happy to an…
This looks like a great and useful service. I'm going to give it a try. However, I tried signing up for "Banyan for Mac," but whatever email I provided was said to be invalid!
This is a great idea! I've been trying to collaborate my professor on academic papers with git. We tried my own git server, github, but they still seem to be too much trouble for people who do not use git regularly. Online LaTex editor integrated with the git service would be great! It would be better if you could add code highlight in the editor though. Also realtime PDF preview (maybe not realtime.. it'll be overwh…
Btw, LaTex compiler running in Native Client would be a potential solution to "realtime PDF preview". Not sure if it's a lot of work porting LaTex to NaCl though.
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Our main two differences from github is that we built banyan to be version control for "humans". Our mac application for example is extremely simple to use, and was designed with an 18 year old undergraduate/55 year old lab veteran in mind. Banyan was designed to be the middle ground of collaboration for users who know git with people who have no idea what git is (and in most cases, cant be bothered to learn another…
So, are you going to provide built-in things like: IPython viewer (like http://nbviewer.ipython.org/ ), LaTeX viewer for notes (like http://mathb.in/ ), support for slides (this thing would be awesome - to have possibility to view them and view/fork their source; a bit related to http://slidewiki.org/ ) or something in that line?
it looks like this just runs a local gitlab instance on your mac. how do you share with other users?
