Looks really cool. Anyone tried to see how it integrates with Emacs?
Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python
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#32How do I uninstall Kite on OSX? It seems you guys keep a Kite Helper and Kite Engine process up that's impossible to quit out of and prevents me from deleting the app.
Re: Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python
#33Adam 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…
Does Kite still send all your code to Kite servers as you type? I remember that being an issue the last time someone talked about Kite on HN. I'm find with an editor or sidekick that can search stack overflow or duckduckgo or google quickly with a hotkey-- maybe keep snippets you can tag and easily reference-- but sending all my code as I type to a web service is something I'm not willing to do and something most com…
I can't speak to whether they still send up all code as it's typed, but I think, for now, they're addressing this concern by offering Kite Enterprise, https://kite.com/enterprise which allows you to run kite on your servers.
Re: Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does Kite still send all your code to Kite servers as you type? I remember that being an issue the last time someone talked about Kite on HN. I'm find with an editor or sidekick that can search stack overflow or duckduckgo or google quickly with a hotkey-- maybe keep snippets you can tag and easily reference-- but sending all my code as I type to a web service is something I'm not willing to do and something most com…
I think the answer to your question is : "* Fine-grained privacy controls modeled after the .gitignore file format means that you can selectively and precisely decide which files and folders Kite indexes."
Unfortunately, that means that a really simple app where a developer hardcoded something like an API key, and didn't put it in a separate file they told Kite to ignore, will get uploaded.
Any system that relies on people following best practices is doomed in the real world :(
Re: Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python
#35No GNU/Linux support? Well, remind me when you do.
Re: Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python
#36Adam 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 looks truly useful and innovative, well done!
Two things come to mind, apologies if they're already addressed:
The sidebar jumping around in the corner of my eye sounds really distracting, I wonder if there's some way to manually tell it to "update" or some other UX trick to ameliorate that, because the concept is great.
I work in the healthcare sector, and I hope you guys do or will have the reams of datasec declarations and certifications needed for this to be usable in such a regulated context.
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#38Useful HN Discussion from the original 1.0 launch:
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#39Curious 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!
My largest concern is how frequently is my code sent to the cloud? Sometimes when building integrations, I hard code private keys just to get things working and then pull them out into config files that aren't checked into source control. Not knowing where that key might have gone would bother me.
One of the big things we've worked on over the past few months is giving users fine grained control of which files are indexed by kite:
- Kite only indexes directories that you have explicitly enabled
- You can create a .kiteignore file (same semantics as .gitignore) to exclude specific files / patterns.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the answer to your question is : "* Fine-grained privacy controls modeled after the .gitignore file format means that you can selectively and precisely decide which files and folders Kite indexes."
Unfortunately, that means that a really simple app where a developer hardcoded something like an API key, and didn't put it in a separate file they told Kite to ignore, will get uploaded. Any system that relies on people following best practices is doomed in the real world :(
You mean like Git?