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

Re:Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python by alexflint on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:28PM (#13978616)

(Copied from above.) 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 plan is to earn trust the hard (i.e. only) way: transparency, published policies, and a track record of good decision making.

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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Re:Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python by andy_ppp on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:32PM (#13978659)

Would it be possible to allow a # nokite at the end of lines; these would then have any strings scrambled. This allows me to know immediately that things aren't being sent to Kite rather than have to do a few checks before I write something secret.

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Re:Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python by sroussey on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:54PM (#13978878)

Actually, it should just remove strings if it does not already.

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Re:Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python by alexflint on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @02:38PM (#13979350)

Good idea - will look into it.

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Re:Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python by mattmanser on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @04:56AM (#13984462)

Oh no, not tens of thousands of indexes! My 5 Mb hard-drive just couldn't handle it.

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Re:Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python by srtjstjsj on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:17AM (#13983627)

> 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.

Why not? that's a _tiny_ amount of data for a modern computer.

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Re:Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python by hasenj on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @01:53PM (#13978867)

How many GBs would the database take on a local machine? Wouldn't it be possible to pick and choose what libraries to include in it?

I'd rather have a few gigabytes on my machine than have all the code I write automatically in the cloud.

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Re:Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python by rdslw on Thursday April 06, 2017 @03:36PM (#14053872)

I think this answer (which you used in few places here) does not address concerns people raised all over:

1) kite is useless (or at least substantially less useful) if you explicitly disable files/directories.

Example: Customer says: This fridge I bought, poisons my good. Company: If you don't put your food into fridge its not poisoned. Yeah, but it also not frozen afterwards, which was the reason for the fridge! And no files/directories/lines/whatever policy does solve that problem. Partially because of 2)

2) Human errors will kill this. Just google for number of problems around security tokens, sshkeys and other thing commited to github by mistake.

The only solution is LOCAL index only.

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Re:Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python by askvictor on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @05:52PM (#13981061)

Why not just use .gitignore as a default (if local indexing is enabled)?

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