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My name is Lyle Pratt. I'm building vida.io so everyone's time is valued.

Twitter: @lylepratt LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lylepratt Facebook: facebook.com/lylepratt Email: lylepratt@vida.io

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sunsu··on Hosting for Webhooks and Transform Streams
I'm assuming this is possible, but its not obvious on the site:

Can I use this to transform Web Hook data from one service into a format that another service expects?

Example:

Service A WebHook -> hook.io -> Service B Rest Request

Edit: Would definitely need SSL support for the above use case.

sunsu··on Show HN: JuliusJS – Speech recognition in JavaScript
Can you use any of the CMUSphinx compatible language models with this, or is there a tool to convert them to something Julius supports?
sunsu··on Twilio Adds Low-Cost, Two-Way MMS Picture Messaging to Its API Cloud
Google Voice numbers are powered by Bandwidth.com. Bandwidth announced that they were working on support a couple of months ago. So, at least its in the pipeline.
sunsu··on Cosmos Browser – Connect to the Internet via SMS, no data or wifi required
I don't see this could EVER be economical. Even wholesale SMS (not Twilio/Plivo/Nexmo/Etc) can still cost $0.001 / SMS. There is simply no way they can operate the proxy/gateway profitably.
sunsu··on The Man Behind the World's Smallest V-12 Engine [video]
Some company should help the guy fullfill his dream and let him "design an engine room for a transatlantic ship".
sunsu··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
To back up your statement: Back in the day my buddy created "greedtube.com" and received a Cease and Desist within 48 hours.
sunsu··on Command Line Faxing
I highly doubt that actually have "a whole bunch of fax machines" or even "banks of modems" anywhere. They are probably just using FreeSWITCH.
sunsu··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2014)
BetterVoice.com

Hiring an experienced AngularJS Developer to lead development on our new unified mobile+web front end.

REMOTE = OK!

Experience with Python/Django = Big Plus

Experience with VoIP/Telephony = Big Plus

You should be self motivated and able to get things done without hand-holding. You should be able to provide work to substantiate the previous requirement. BetterVoice.com is a profitable company based out of the Capital Factory in Austin TX.

Email: lyle - @ - bettervoice - .com

sunsu··on Show HN: Contactive API – Turn telephone numbers into full profiles
FullContact also offers searching by Phone Number. Its not very good though. How is your's better?
sunsu··on Show HN: Sheetlabs – Turn your spreadsheets into APIs
Really cool!....Unfortunately, no business is ever going to "build APIs on top of their existing spreadsheets".
sunsu··on New AWS region coming soon: eu-central-1
Thought it said "us-central" at first. Was hoping for a Dallas datacenter!
sunsu··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2014)
Just shot you an email.
sunsu··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2014)
Hi Alejandro. I just shot you an email. -Lyle Pratt - BetterVoice.com
sunsu··on For $10,000, your car can drive itself – Cruise (YC W14)
My 2010 Lexus had "lane keep assist" and adaptive cruise control (which used radar). It would bring you from 60mph to stop if needed without you ever needing to press the brake.
sunsu··on Videogrep: Automatic Supercuts with Python
You should check out the Op3nVoice API: http://www.op3nvoice.com/

Lets you search video/audio for spoken words.

sunsu··on WebGL on iOS8 Safari and WebView
Now if only we could get some WebRTC support! Has anyone heard anything about that in iOS8?
sunsu··on Poll: Where do you host your production environments?
I have 13 production instances on DO and have been very pleased. Some of them are heavy on the CPU. I did quite a bit of testing comparing equivalent DO 8&16GB instances to Linode and DO came out ahead each time. That may have changed now that Linode released all their upgrades.
sunsu··on Famo.us open to everyone
95% of the negativity on this thread revolves around the obviously sub-par scrolling behavior. I think that if you look past the ScrollView problems there is a lot of great innovation in this framework. I'm looking forward to their continued work.

I've been particularly impressed with the new support for Angular: http://famo.us/angular

As a side note, that page is a good example of famous being used with NORMAL scrolling.

sunsu··on How Famo.us will change the surface of modern web apps
This is absolutely not "Just another ui framework". Famo.us takes a completely new approach HTML5 apps and no other framework even comes close in terms of UI performance. There really is just no comparison and this framework is going to change how HTML5 UI is done.
sunsu··on EcoVent: Make every room in your home the right temperature [video]
I would buy one today if it were available. One thing I don't understand is how the vents control when the AC turns on or off. If it can't do that, then I don't see how it will work well.

Edit: It would be easy to do if you replaced the thermostat, but interfacing with legacy ones (or running wire) would be a pain.

sunsu··on TurboTax Maker Intuit Funnels Millions to Lobby Against Easier Tax Returns
If you were running Intiut, would you do anything differently? The TurboTax product is built on the fact that the Tax code is complicated. Of course they're going to lobby against tax reform.
sunsu··on What if we never run out of oil? (2013)
You need to be thinking more macro: energy production via oil rather than, say, coal...China switching from bicycle s to gas scooters...etc
sunsu··on Zapier Email Parser: Extract Text From Automated Emails
This is a killer feature for Zapier and i'm really excited. Zapier has been a huge time saver for us at BetterVoice.com.

How many times do you get approached by customers or other vendors about "when are you going to integrate with XYZ" product? If you just integrate ONE time with Zapier, you're immediately connected with over 200 other online services. Then your answer to those customers/vendors can be: "We're integrated with Zapier, so you guys should integrate with them too and you'll get all the other benefits as well". With that answer you accomplish 2 things: 1) you shift the burden to them (2) you can use Zapier as a "testing ground" to see how popular an integration with a particular service is. If one particular Zapier connection starts taking off, then you can consider a direct integration. If only a few people use a particular service connection, then you haven't lost anything.

sunsu··on iOS holding my phone number hostage = the worst bug I’ve ever experienced
*Now problem free
sunsu··on iOS holding my phone number hostage = the worst bug I’ve ever experienced
I had this same problem and recently solved it by - putting my sim back into my old iOS phone. - reactivating iMessage on the old phone WITH the sim inside of the old phone - wait to make sure the phone fully registers with iMessage servers - deactivate iMessage WITH the sim inside the phone

After following these steps, I'm not problem free. I had tried many times before to reactivate/deactivate iMessage, but never with the sim back in the device.

sunsu··on Outbox Is Shutting Down
I always thought it was absurd that they actually had people picking up your mail from your mailbox. I wanted a "Google Voice" for mail. Just let me give out some proxy mailing address that goes straight to their scanners.
sunsu··on Ask PG/HN: Recommended reading on the history of technology
A long time ago in undergrad, I took a "History of Technology" class. This was one of the books we read that I got a lot from:

"The Chip" http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0375758283

sunsu··on Twilio Announces MMS Support
Its definitely real! They officially support Images, but will accept (and pass along) lots of other formats: https://www.twilio.com/docs/api/rest/accepted-mime-types
sunsu··on Plivo Targets Big Enterprises With 'Bring Your Own Carrier' Cloud Telephony
Our system is designed to run on any of the modern cloud telephony APIs: Twilio, Plivo, TelAPI, even your own RestComm stack. I don't know of anything OS though.
sunsu··on Facebook news feed ads generate 49 times more clicks at 45% less cost
The new ads are "retargeted". You won't see one unless you've been to the advertisers website recently. That is where the "intent" comes from.

Seems reasonable to drive user to your site through SEM/SEO, then hammer home the message with one of these new FB add.

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