Hacker News: bamnet

New comment by bamnet in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

bamnet — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:51:24 +0000

K-Anonymity isn't the only technique. Differential Privacy is arguably more robust.

New comment by bamnet in "You can't leak users' data if you don't hold it"

bamnet — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:25:11 +0000

This isn't just a theoretical point. Chrome extensions are the canonical example of products which start off with the best intentions, get acquired, and then ...

New comment by bamnet in "U.S. National Park Service API"

bamnet — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 04:23:18 +0000

It's a super cool API, but last I chatted with the team who maintains this (~2020?) it was already understaffed and they only had capacity for bug fixes. The roadmap hasn't been updated since 2017 so YMMV.

New comment by bamnet in "Google Maps is a critical dependency for nutrition facts on mcdonalds.com"

bamnet — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 17:41:58 +0000

This isn't how it works. The Google Maps API doesn't know where users are.

Instead, it's probably being used for an autocomplete widget to help users type in an address.

New comment by bamnet in "Introducing MapKit JS"

bamnet — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 19:17:41 +0000

Last I checked the new Google Maps licensing [1] is a bit more permissive, placing no restrictions on the behind a login bit.

The Google Maps JavaScript API does support UIWebView [2] so it should work embedded on iOS. There's a native SDK too.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/ [2] https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...

New comment by bamnet in "Chatbots need a personality"

bamnet — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 00:07:15 +0000

Users are never happy with chatbots, but they can be happy with chat experiences if they never realize there's a bot behind the scenes.

New comment by bamnet in "Google Earth Enterprise Open Source"

bamnet — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 03:36:54 +0000

GEE lets you take a lots of imagery and vector data and process it together so that it can be displayed on Google Earth or anything that can render simple imagery tiles like the Google Maps API. It can run locally / on prem which is a big benefit if connectivity is a challenge for your business or end-users. Previously, this was something Google sold but was deprecated a few years ago. Now that it's open source people can keep using it :-)

Disclaimer: I work for Google, but not on GEE.

New comment by bamnet in "Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps"

bamnet — Thu, 29 May 2014 22:31:26 +0000

You should probably migrate to the V3 API.