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Something you make in two minutes enables more interaction than this solution? I must work at a very slow pace...legends take me longer than I'd like to admit.

This is really neat. I was playing with it on pictures of street signs and buildings and realized that if I select some text and then do ctrl+a it tried to select everything it thought was text...Then I used right click > translate > reprint to see what it thought each thing was.

Here is the picture: http://thesuperslice.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/downtown...

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In the OPs defense, he not only determined the average ping interval but also provided analysis on what the numbers could mean...without the second part, the numbers don't matter.

I would hope the people working this case could do the same but I also support the idea of crowd-sourcing.

And the pencil icon above #3 "Great projects find you" looks like a penis. Sorry, but I looked over the page and definitely saw a graph and a piece of paper/pencil. I think there are a LOT of icons and illustrations that we can look at and see something unintended (not always a bad thing!)but just because this happens doesn't mean the design in question is bad.

Lots of pessimism in this thread let me try to even it out a little.

I personally backed this when it was on Kickstarter for $35 and do not regret my decision. I have used FontAwesome in the past as well as a few other free alternatives. While the javascript-less-ness of FA is nice (Iconic has a webfont), the quality of the icons themselves and their level of customization comes no where near Iconic. Many people have mentioned the multiple colors on 1 icon but I haven't seen anyone talk about the ability to easily theme all icons with just a couple lines of css, which makes the multiple color thing more appealing.

Additionally, Iconic is available as Webfont and PNG if so desired. They are also working on a number of additional features that I find interesting (bottom of the features page https://useiconic.com/feature-index/), specifically ExtendScript for Illustrator and then generation via Grunt.

I am pleased with my $35 purchase and have no reservations about paying the $99 for a commercial license if it fits the project (like any icon set you choose!)...However, for those who haven't had a chance to try it I really wish there was a cheaper/free option for experimenting.

I honestly don't think the target market is startups. I think it is freelance web developers or very small firms who wouldnt otherwise wouldn't/couldn't spend the time creating a unique icon set for a site.

I disagree and happen to like the majority of the icons - besides the QR Bitcoin one. Also, not everyone who creates a website wants to or can spend time customizing their own icons specifically for the site. Even if I wanted to do that I don't think I have the knowledge or "eye" for it even though I have designed and developed many commercial websites over the years.

I backed this kickstarter and still absolutely love the implementation they came up with. I know the general concepts Iconic addresses have been done in some form or another but they make it so simple and beautiful that it puts them in a league of their own, IMO.

Very excited to see Portland,OR on the list! I'm tired of Comcast and the other options are quite lacking in one way or another.

Looks awful on mobile would be great if you could make it responsive.

This is a bit over my head but I am intrigued. Can someone give a few examples of what this would let you accomplish and how it differs from current methods?

"Minimum wage really is not built as an independent living wage"

This is exactly what I have always thought which is why I am always surprised to hear outrage about minimum wage jobs that do not provide a living wage yet they seem to think they should...or at least that is what I assume when they propose unions as a "solution".

Its enough if you're a kid still living at home under the age of 18 :) but you're right about anyone beyond that, I would hope they don't spend the money on video games!

I am from the US and when I hear fast food workers being referred to as middle class it always surprises me. Can you really afford to rent or buy a house, or buy a relatively new car, or pay on any substantial debt with the income from KFC? I guess more importantly do we really expect that someone should be able to? Should even the lowest paying of jobs be enough to do such things? I know as a kid working a minimum wage job I never expected that I should be able afford more than gas, snacks, and games until I had a "real job". I am curious if our economy could even afford to provide a "living wage" for virtually all jobs.

I signed up for the beta. Now I wait! Thanks

Would it be possible to get some sort of diagram or screenshots up that would at least give us something to look at? A theoretical, yet somewhat detailed, use-case would be great.

Exactly what I would use it for but then I realized it wasn't free and to me its not worth the money.

It makes me happy when this sort of fun, simple app gets voted up to the front page of HN. It reminds me that my apps don't need to do a million different things but that only a couple fun/awesome functions can be elegant and useful.

Still seems like a helicopter inside a ball, except with 3 gyroscopes to essentially auto-correct itself.

To me this seems to hit the same market as Etsy. People who spend their time creating things, selling one-off items, are just going online so that they can put it on a business card, ect would use something like this. I showed this to a girl who I was just talking to about putting her stuff on Etsy, she likes this FAR more, but the only thing she wanted was to use her own domain.

I am having an issue where when I start to scroll down, part of the page tries to to scroll down as well and mucks up everything else..in Firefox 4

I am actually in a very similar position and would love to hear what the HN community thinks.