johns

"Native" now pretty much means not-web-based or using a cross-platform framework (like Air).

The ability to integrate VoIP that uses the data connection instead of the voice network into apps.

This is a nice take on the I/O Docs/API Explorer style (e.g. http://developer.mashery.com/iodocs). Those sample JSON responses could really stand to get some pretty printing though. Don't provide example responses if they're unreadable. The post even touches on this ("An API’s documentation is its human interface") so it would nice to see them made more human-readable.

Wow didn't realize I had fallen so far in the rankings. Thanks for ruining my day ;)

JDB! Why am I not showing up in SF? :)

While I think there's going to be a place for APIs to use async bidirectional communication (e.g. pretty much anything people use webhooks for) I don't think it makes sense to shoehorn in 'REST' (which in the quick start, is more RPC than REST). REST makes sense for HTTP, and I think something else (I don't know what) will make more sense for websockets. Maybe this is a good bridge to something better though.

Things I've heard at various points which may or may not still be true:

- Votes by direct link don't really count. So you could see a high total but it's not the actual value being used for the rank.

- Many flags can penalize a post

- Voting rings are heavily penalized

I'm in favor of all of these things because they prevent the most obvious gaming schemes.

Edit: looking at your history (http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=destraynor) it's clear you only submit your own stuff. No one will argue with people self-submitting stuff here and there, but only submitting your own posts? If the content was worthy, someone would post it and it would get enough votes to rise organically.

> they will give up the focus on syncing our private files in exchange for the allure of allowing every site and app to read and write from one's Dropbox

I don't see how those are mutually exclusive.

Needless comparison. There's no limit on the number of podcasts there can be. It's the first one. Give it a chance to find its legs.

I got stuck on 'Installing...'

Possibly http://context.io/ though I can't tell if they only support Gmail or not from their site.

For developer tools you use every day, I think $100 is a relatively small amount and in line with what a lot of text editors and IDEs charge for (and less than many of them).

The likelihood that Dropbox is paying the rack rate is near 0.

I don't know of any other online ones for .NET. Do you have a link?

As a Scramble with Friends addict this is clearly up my ally. I actually find the mouse to be faster because the keyboard is too unpredictable and it's too disruptive to completing a word. There must be something there since I was consistently getting the top score.

There's also:

   Searchify, Running the full open sourced IndexTank Search as a Service API  
   HoundSleuth, IndexTank Compatible API  
   IndexTanktoGO, IndexTank Compatible API  
   Bimaple, IndexTank Compatible API  
   IndexDen, IndexTank Compatible API

Lack of a sync API I'm guessing is a big one. There's no way to guarantee a file you place in a Dropbox will be there in the future unless you're notified if it's gone (which you can now do with /delta). Also, storing files isn't that big of a challenge, it's not like Dropbox is equipping you with a new skill. There needs to be a very compelling reason to put someone through an OAuth flow that requires a third-party service subscription for something that can easily be done transparently on the server or using S3 directly.

I personally don't think it's compelling for everyday file storage, like S3 is. However, I think there are a ton of other possibilities that are very compelling: data export, save to Dropbox, collaboration and sharing amongst multiple users, etc.

Yep

RSS feeds from their search functions, or in 37signals case pulling in all RSS items and then filtering for just those that match what I'm looking for. Then a little post-processing work to extract the data into something more structured.

Wanted to make sure there was interest before I invested the time in it. It's looking like there is.

Edited! Thanks :)

Link! http://www.api-jobs.com

A more serious attempt at this was Manos de Mono which has also since been abandoned. With Node getting a lot of love from MS there's little need for a clone.

https://github.com/jacksonh/manos

I've traveled extensively since the scanners have been in place and I've never gone through a traditional detector before a new scanner. They're almost always side-by-side.

Previous discussions http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=localtunnel

mind putting a space in that comment? you're breaking the layout

Charge for SMS reminders. Or add an SMS interface. (yes I'm biased, see profile, but I would use it)

That's the super old design. Email me your size and address and I'll send you the new nice one with the tasteful design. You'll love it, I promise. jsheehan@twilio.com

Or just don't offer click navigation on functions defined in eval(). Acceptable trade off.