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Re: Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python

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Curious to try Kite, I started to integrate Kite plugin into PyCharm until I saw they keep our code in the cloud which enables Kite do what it does. I'm not sure how many of them would be ok with their code being stored in a private cloud!

So can I use this without an internet connection? The environments I work in are basically SCIFs. Think i'll stick with Jedi for now.

Re: Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python

#52

Adam from Kite here. Thanks for all the feedback and encouragement around the launch today. We're excited to be opening up Kite for everyone to download today. When we launched Kite here on hackernews almost a year ago we were blown away by the enthusiasm for our smart copilot vision. Over 65,000 of you signed up for Kite in the first 72 hours, and over the past year we've been working with many of you to deliver tha…

This would be a winner if the indexing were done locally and only usage data regarding public packages were sent to kite.com

Re: Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python

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post #22

Curious to try Kite, I started to integrate Kite plugin into PyCharm until I saw they keep our code in the cloud which enables Kite do what it does. I'm not sure how many of them would be ok with their code being stored in a private cloud!

Totally legit concern. when we started working on this we realized if we wanted to index tens of thousands of libraries, we wouldn't be able to ship the entire index along with the client. Hence the cloud-based architecture. We've thought a lot about privacy and written up our thoughts here: kite.com/security. The short answer is: we don't index anything on your computer that you don't explicitly ask us to, and our p…

how easy is it for one of your programmers to look at code that is currently residing on your cloud?

Re: Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python

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post #51
post #22

Curious to try Kite, I started to integrate Kite plugin into PyCharm until I saw they keep our code in the cloud which enables Kite do what it does. I'm not sure how many of them would be ok with their code being stored in a private cloud!

So can I use this without an internet connection? The environments I work in are basically SCIFs. Think i'll stick with Jedi for now.

Yeah, as of today (and probably for the foreseeable future) you can't use Kite while you're not connected to the internet. But honestly most programmers I speak to already rely a _lot_ on looking up material online while coding. Kite won't break your dev environment if you're disconnected, it just won't add anything.

Re: Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python

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post #22

Curious to try Kite, I started to integrate Kite plugin into PyCharm until I saw they keep our code in the cloud which enables Kite do what it does. I'm not sure how many of them would be ok with their code being stored in a private cloud!

Totally legit concern. when we started working on this we realized if we wanted to index tens of thousands of libraries, we wouldn't be able to ship the entire index along with the client. Hence the cloud-based architecture. We've thought a lot about privacy and written up our thoughts here: kite.com/security. The short answer is: we don't index anything on your computer that you don't explicitly ask us to, and our p…

How big is the index? Could you offer it as an option (even paid)? I imagine some would be happy using up a good few gigs and paying a bit more to not have to post their code to you.

Re: Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python

#56
Maybe a little bit off-topic and controversial, but in my opinion auto-complete is overrated.

Doing software development is mostly reading code and documentation. Obviously one also writes code and for sure one can't memorize every function or package name, but searching for it isn't that much of a bottleneck? Some time ago I wrote Java using Eclipse (which had/has reasonable auto-complete), but when I switched to different languages, I also switched my IDE and mostly use plain text editors these days. There are auto-completion tools for text editors, but I just never invest the time to activate or configure them and AFAIK there aren't completion tools which work well across different languages.

Maybe I revisit them at some point, but at the moment I do not really miss auto-completion.

Re: Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python

#57

Why are you encrypting my password (as opposed to hashing it)[0]? [0]: http://i.imgur.com/59VOotU.png

Oops! That message is a remnant of the distant past and does not correspond in any way to what is actually happening under the hood.

Re: Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python

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post #22

Curious to try Kite, I started to integrate Kite plugin into PyCharm until I saw they keep our code in the cloud which enables Kite do what it does. I'm not sure how many of them would be ok with their code being stored in a private cloud!

Totally legit concern. when we started working on this we realized if we wanted to index tens of thousands of libraries, we wouldn't be able to ship the entire index along with the client. Hence the cloud-based architecture. We've thought a lot about privacy and written up our thoughts here: kite.com/security. The short answer is: we don't index anything on your computer that you don't explicitly ask us to, and our p…

I'm sorry but the true intention is to have recurring revenue and not have licensing issues with open-source software you're leveraging on your backend. It's fine to be a capitalist, and I'm looking forward to using and paying for kite once my language of choice is supported, but come on, just be honest that you need a source of income to create this amazing product and this model is the one that fits the bill best. Again, there's nothing wrong with that. I'll gladly give you 1TB of HD space, help seed the giant chunk of data, and pay a bit moreif that's what it takes.

Re: Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python

#60
In my professional job I work with code that is private and copy righted by the company that's employing me and praying my salary, not to mention sometimes I edit files that contain sensitive or critical information like passwords and secret encryption/decryption keys.

Anything that sends all my code​ to the cloud is automatically disqualified.

EDIT: thanks for the downvote btw.

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