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This isn't ready for public consumption, it was posted to HN by someone unrelated to JuliaBox.

Yeah, it's a huge bummer that this leaked before it could be set up for a heavy load.

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.

We had 250 simultaneous connections when we were configured only for 20. We will certainly post it when we are ready.

Great! I'm pretty sure those 250 connections will be ready to go when you are. Good luck with the work.

Thanks so much! I was going to flag but was unsure if it was appropriate.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Reminds me of http://forio.com/julia/repl/ except the addition of iJulia notebook makes it much more useful.

I can also upload files and run them though the console. Or just write the code with vim in the console, in your browser.

Yes indeed, the next evolution of the concept. As you say, the IJulia notebook is the "right" way to do it.

So I don't know what is Julia, and I still don't know what is it. It's a box for Julia, look greats.

Looks like a landing page to gauge interest. Consider me interested.

Its actually functional, but wasn't meant to be released yet and can't scale to this kind of demand. When it is released, I'm sure you'll see it here!

What is it? Why would I sign in into something I know nothing about?

It is Julia running in a browser, allowing you to try it with no installs. Its not meant for public use yet.

And yes, you shouldn't sign into something you know nothing about - no one is asking you too :)

-1 -> Only sign in is with google.

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