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
Google was just for convenience and something to start with (and not worry about user management). We also want to be able to use the Google Drive Sync. Once we sort out other pressing issues, we will certainly add other methods to login before announcing again. Pull Requests are welcome too!
Google Groups were just convenient when we started, compared to other mailing list software. It is not the greatest, but better than most other things out there - and gets the job done.
This is not meant for public consumption yet, so alternatives will be provided later. Before then, using Google to authenticate is much simpler than making a robust password system, and the tool also can store files on Google Drive - requiring auth anyway.
Yes it was posted by a third-party, not fully ready for primetime. Its running on AWS so at least no one's computer is likely to get owned due to any glitches! Thanks for your interest - it is a pretty fun tool.
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.
Yes this wasn't meant to publicly available yet - was up for our own testing and internal use. The maintainer is working on scaling it a bit, but its not really ready to take on the full load of the internet.
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.
It is essentially Julia running in the browser, primarily as an IJulia notebook. Its a way to try Julia, and is good for teaching as students don't need to install anything to get started with technical computing.
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?
The site wasn't meant to be publicly released yet - it was online only for internal testing amongst a small set of users. Its under very heavy load now so is most likely unresponsive. You can get a similar experience by trying out IJulia on your own machine though, until its properly released.
We'll bury this post if you'll post it again when it's ready. The thread is unable to be a meaningful discussion right now, so I think that's in everyone's interests.
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[ 5.8 ms ] story [ 164 ms ] threadEdit: 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
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
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.
And yes, you shouldn't sign into something you know nothing about - no one is asking you too :)