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You don't have to buy your diamond at a jeweler - in fact you shouldn't unless you like wasting money.

There are plenty of diamond exchanges online. You buy the diamond and the setting separately, and then bring them to any jeweler to set it.

Also, you can buy moissanite instead - it's cheaper and hard to tell apart. Much better quality than cubic zirconia.

Because of a stupid patent you can't buy pre-made moissanite jewelery, instead you buy the stone and the setting separately.
I agree with you 100%. I'm embarrassed that she's a self proclaimed representative of 'women in tech'.

If she really wanted to make a point she could have turned around and told the guy that what he said was not OK. Not only would it would have driven the point across that some people are more sensitive than others, but it would be treating the guy like a fellow human being.
The difference is Drive is a flagship "L-team" product, so it's pretty much on equal standing to Google+ in terms of priority. When Larry Page took the helm he created 7 core focus areas + accompanying SVP's (A nice summary: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013/01/03/google-larry-page/).

Last weeks reshuffle which had the Maps and Commerce units absorbed into the Knowledge and Ads units respectively and Pichai taking over Android brings it down to 5 focus areas:

SVP of Knowledge/Search — Alan Eustace, SVP of Identity/Social — Vic Gundotra, SVP of Advertising and Commerce — Susan Wojcicki, SVP of YouTube/Video — Salar Kamangar, SVP of Android, Chrome and Google Apps — Sundar Pichai

The key distinction between Drive and Reader is that Drive is pretty much the embodiment of Google Apps itself, whereas Reader was an orphaned product which didn't have a home in any of these 5 post-Page areas.
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70s? Don't forget the Suffragettes!
It depends. Are you looking for fulltime or freelance? Do you have a budget to pay a competitive rate, or are you looking to cut corners?

If you have the budget to pay a competitive rate:

Fulltime

- http://www.angel.co - A great platform for startup hiring. you can find founder level talent here.

Freelance

- http://www.dribbble.com - Cream of the crop. For a reasonable fee you can search by location and availability
- http://www.behance.net - another great collection of portfolios

If you're not prepared to pay a competitive rate:

Fulltime

- http://www.craigslist.org - I've hired great designers via craigslist who were just starting out, but didn't have much of a portfolio put together.

- Local art schools or universities with design programs - same theory, you'll save by hiring designers at the beginning of their careers

Freelance

- http://www.elance.com

- http://www.odesk.com

- http://www.99designs.com

Not the best, but definitely the cheapest.

Good luck!
> But in all seriousness this would have ended in the 70s when feminist protests started.

I started dating in the 70s: I thought it was a period of bizarre contrasts.

But then as time went by, I realized dating has been bizarre since the time we were all living in caves.
Sorry, the link to honest signaling is a bit lost on me, can you elaborate? Are you saying that people buy diamond rings because it's expected? I would hope there would be a discussion about that before going out and buying a ring. (And if not, I would consider that part of the "tradition" of: the man must propose, the man must spend a fortune on the ring, the man must surprise the woman on one knee, etc). Anyway, sorry if I'm misunderstanding you, just not 100% sure what you mean.
This looks like a great solution, thanks for the share!
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I'm a straight guy. Having grown up in the culture I grew up in, I have some irrational, socialized preferences of my own.

Having an understanding with my partner that we're willing to indulge each others irrational, socialized preferences does have its upsides.
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Nice, but seems too limited and poorly documented for me personally.
Walmart recently ran a survey about expected costs of engagement rings and found Americans' expectations have been changing.

http://news.walmart.com/news-archive/2013/02/04/walmart-surv...

(Disclaimer: I work on the tool they used to conduct the survey, which is why I know about it.)
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Indeed, they are a scam. A trend I've observed is to create an item or have an item created with immense personal value (though not necessarily much "material value"). The most common examples of this I see are custom and hand made rings of various cheap materials with interesting and personal designs.

That's the kind of thing I think is a good idea.
> I did spend $700 on my chair, $300 on my kinesis keyboard, $800 on my LCD monitor, etc. etc.

The difference is that these are all things that increase comfort and health, not only happiness. As somebody who sits at a computer all day, this has a huge impact on your back, wrists, eyes, etc.
I pity those in this thread saying that their fiancee wouldn't listen to reason about this.

Karma be damned but women as a whole are swayed more by marketing then men are. They've been sold the princess wedding, the diamond ring, the brand-name clothing, etc. It's difficult to break them of this so sometimes the fight isn't worth it.

I didn't pay for my wedding so that was my in-laws problem although it wasn't grandiose (but it could've been) and I was fairly poor when we got engaged so the two-month salary guideline was a joke.

As for diamonds, my wife loves jewelery but has grown up and realized that everyone off the street can't tell the difference between CZ and a diamond. Case in point, I bought her a very nice ring from Nordstrom that looks like it's probably an $8k+ diamond ring and that everyone else thinks is a 'rock'. But it's just a big piece of CZ, surrounded by smaller pieces of CZ. Not one person has ever questioned whether it's a diamond or at least doesn't have the balls to. If asked my wife would be honest but she's never been asked (at least around me).
I've always felt that Ben Horowitz's characterization was the best:

http://bhorowitz.com/2011/04/15/peacetime-ceowartime-ceo/

TLDR Eric was a peacetime CEO and could allow the company to do the things he allowed. Larry is a wartime CEO. Hard decisions need to be made, and the company needs to be driven with focus.
It's a false premise. If the goods are worth accumulating then they're fungible. Bnning teh exchange of something as a means of sidestepping currency transaction rules does not destroy inherent value.

Suppose, for example, you have a scheme where people use goats as currency. The goats are all kept on a big farm somewhere, and when one person wants to transfer money to someone else who is a member of the scheme the farm operator updates the notional total of goats owned by each party. If there are enough members in the pool to provide a variety of goods and services to each other, it could be a tax avoidance scheme. You could proscribe that trade, while estimating liability by looking at the number of goats owned by the individual members and/or the $ value of goods and services exchanged, even if it were impractical to realize that money by selling the goats (because they all had a disease or because the nominal value had become wildly inflated compared to the going rate in agricultural markets).
All great ideas - perfect use case for a flexible api
By startup visa, do you mean E-2 or do you also want to hear about OPT, H1-B around startups?
I updated my original comment a bit. Does that explain things better?
What a terrible loss.
Anonymity isn't the only value of Bitcoin. There's also the matter of exchanging money electronically without paying fees to banks, Visa, or Mastercard. Regulation might make transacting Bitcoin more expensive but still leave it cheaper than traditional approaches.

I'm not a fan of Bitcoin personally (too much speculation for me to be comfortable using it as a medium of exchange, much less a store of value) but I think people underestimate how badly we're getting screwed by the current payment oligopoly.
What are some cool alternatives to a diamond ring? I want to get a ring with a carbon nanotube "gem", but there doesn't seem to be a practical way to acquire that.
gold jewelry price is for the art, not the mass.
How about rings that convey some actual benefit to their bearer, like perhaps the ability to procure books and other supplies related to a child's education at no cost? Why make it a fashion statement, when you could make it something useful?
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before you make assumptions i'd check facts and/or inquire. our first fund was all of our own capital. we took 100% of the risk. didn't take ANY salary let alone a "cushy one" as for our added value, feel free to reach out to ANY of the founders we've invested in.
This is why deflation matters:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Babysitting_Co-op
Mr Hank, due to your privacy being violated in this crazy creepy manner I was able to find who you are. Good luck to you sir. There are a lot of men and women who are on your side.

One thing I will say is, that your former employer is crazy not to have your back. Is there no way they can change their mind? (I am not sure you would want your job back because they really let you down)
"most VCs don't try to create new value, they just try to create new money."

I'd argue that many startups try to create new money too.

"The risk they take is minimal compared to startups - it's not their money (it's their investors),"

Not true. General partners also invest in the VC firms. It's not completely OPM

"and a nice cushy salary is all but assured for several years."

Also not true. In NYC, for example, 100K isn't exactly "cushy".

"Even when they fail (and they fail a lot - like most businesses do) - they barely feel each failure compared to how the startups feel it (I guess their reputation / pride takes a hit?)."

Back to the previous point, they lose the money they personally invested and they feel the failure when they turn around and try again.
What "rational" material can fit on a finger, weighs a few grams or less, is convenient enough to wear everyday, is mostly fungible (yes, diamonds are fungible at the wholesale level), is durable, insurable, and is worth any arbitrary amount you can think of depending on its characteristics?

Diamonds are great for their purpose, which is social signaling at a high level.
That's a claim, not a proof.
> I'm starting to feel like these words will merge in the next 100 years, and either form will be correct for all usages.

Interesting thought since, prior to the 19th century, "its" frequently was spelled "it's".

I have long considered it one of the abominations of the English language that a contraction ("it is" -> "it's") is given precedence over a pronoun with what is clearly a saxon genitive. Contractions should always take the lowest possible precedence in cases of collisions as far as I am concerned.
My mother always said 'if a big wedding guaranteed happiness everyone would have one'. Then again she came from a generation where a wedding was a church and family with a reception at someone's house - not an opportunity to feed 300 of you 'closest' friends.

We've all seen plenty of insane, $50k weddings result in 3-year marriages.
You're committed to spend your entire life together but aren't willing to drop a few grand today? Uh-huh.

(Just playing devil's advocate. With the argument I got.)
"If X is more important to you than her happiness..."

It's kind of a two-way street - which of you is more willing to make a sacrifice for this relationship? Perhaps a compromise can be reached...

-d, husband for 18.5yrs and counting
There's currently six occurrences of "it's" and 13 of "its" and all are correct. Ninja edit since your comment?
and i'd argue that the majority of vcs we syndicate deals with leverage themselves as much as possible to add value. good companies generally have their choice as to which money to accept. value add is key...
Then she should do them both a favor and pronounce him not good enough for her, so they can both move on.
I don't think anyone is saying that you're obligated to like them. The problem they have is probably with your tone, which suggests that Google is obligated to literally never, ever shut down any product they experiment with.
with no aggregate monetary growth it would be like "investing" in a game of poker.

This statement is wrong, because you measure profits in money rather than value. With bitcoin the amount of money in the economy stays the same, true. However the value of each unit grows as soon as you invest and produce something useful that people want. This means, you may receive back even less than you invested in absolute units of money, but more in value.
I used Blue Nile to buy my wife's engagement ring and was very happy with the service/quality. The online customer care agents actively pushed me to buy the lowest quality diamond that would appear 'best', as there are many levels of quality that can only be seen under a loupe by a jeweler. All of these grades will appear to be equivalent to the untrained/unaided eye.

She needed to get the ring resized later and it was very easy. Returned via FedEx and had it back a week later.
Same here, we went with blue sapphire in white gold. Very nice color combination.
Yes, well, a fox inside the henhouse is not a problem until it starts going after chickens.
Not sure what they were expecting using "amazon" in the name.
Why not eschew marriage altogether?
Though he approaches the subject of an attention economy from a somewhat different angle than we're used to, the author, writing in the early 1980s, comes to the conclusion--all the more relevant today than it was in his time--that "computers are doing to communication / what fences did to pastures and cars did to streets."
But your geology teacher wasn't even correct. You can't make synthetic diamonds with similar color characteristics to natural diamonds at a fraction of the price. In fact, colorless synthetic diamonds are more expensive.
I'm not aware of any law that requires her to give it back, no matter the day.
That's just the code aspect.

Most of the time, when you build something "on the clock" and/or with company resources, they own it. Therefore, you are probably not allowed to make licensing decisions or release it without clearing it through proper channels. Regardless of what you think or even the nebulous "company" thinks, at the end of the day, someone - probably a senior exec or legal counsel - will have to authorize it.

I think this article does a huge disservice in not noting that.
It has some useful features that I find easier to use in a gui than using command line.

For example, being able to see a summary of diffs of all staged and unstaged files, and being able to select particular lines of the diffs and stage/unstage/undo them. Or being able to see commits and diffs from other peoples' branches before I pull them.

Honestly, a gui is pretty useful for git, especially when you're doing operations that you want to apply to many specific files in different folders.

> push, pull, checkout, add, commit. I can go days just using those five commands.

You're missing out on a few git features then.

I agree some of the buttons are useless, like adding or removing files. The main window has a list of staged and unstaged files and I just drag and drop files between the two window panes. I've never had to use those buttons before.
I just happened on this thread, even if a day old. Un-fucking-believable.

I'm disappointed nearly all around here. Disappointed in pycon for actually kicking them out. Very disappointed that some would say posting their picture was fine (hint: it was not). Utterly disappointed they lost their jobs over this. I still can't believe they lost their jobs over this. What a sad state of affairs the world is in when someone's twitter rant (with no proof, mind you) gets someone canned.

Additionally, I'm flabbergasted that so few seem to think that Adria is, of all things, NOT the bully in this situation. The way she handled it was sensationalist, abusive, slimy and, most of all, cowardly.

Look, I get it, Adria was offended. We've all been there. I hear someone say something racist around me, I offer up a "not cool, dude" and move on. Handle it maturely, rise above and walk away. Or better yet, explain it. Too intimidated to explain it to them? Fine, write about it in the abstract. What Adria did was as low as it comes.

Could those guys have used some better judgement? Sure. Were the alleged jokes appropriate? Mildly not appropriate (but lets not get hyperbolic here...they were MILDLY not appropriate). Should they have been kicked out of the conf? No, someone should have talked to them about code of conduct. Should they have been fired? WTF? NO!

And, lastly, Adria's hypocrisy would be amusing if not so sad. https://twitter.com/adriarichards/status/312265091791847425

Freakin' absurd.
The following Google query (excuse my minimal effort including leaving the protocol designation) might be a place to start. I saw a few interesting-looking results. Be sure to click through one one of them where the top comment links to a prior HN post.

site:news.ycombinator.com http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69354-a-few-billion-lines-of-code-later
This is exactly why I don't like the transaction fee model of funding mining in the long-term, and would prefer a coin with a slowly-growing uncapped money supply.
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> Karma be damned but women as a whole are swayed more by marketing then men are

To make a claim like this, I'd normally expect data, not a bunch of anecdotes. Men I know are highly swayed by marketing as well. They want expensive cars, tools, games, alcohol, and other toys. It is hard to reason about the degree to which each is influenced solely from the products that are marketed to them.

It is quite a stretch for me to believe that women are fundamentally more susceptible to marketing of frivolous luxuries than men. My guess is that you just don't think the things you want a frivolous.
From my perspective (as someone who spent 2 years running a startup that tried to disrupt the diamond industry), I think the most difficult thing to do is to change the entrenched consumer sentiment. Without a shift in how they view these expensive purchases, there won't be disruption. This usually means spending tens or hundreds of millions of dollars on marketing the idea.

I've studied and analysed what we did wrong / why we failed to gain traction - and might try to attack the problems from a different angle if we decide to give it a second shot.
The increased line-height bothers me quite a bit, it seems to detract from readability.
Yeah, they should spend money on something sensible, like a Porsche.
Let's just all agree that we can send a man to the moon but there will never be an algorithm that can help you figure out even 1% of the female psyche.
I short circuited this and married a geologist. She picked out a cheap diamond ring because diamonds are still "what goes on your wedding ring" but we only spent about $200 on it.

Now, the misstep in marrying a geologist is that she owns many other rocks worth much more.
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> I realize a line needs to be drawn somewhere, and in this case that line was chosen at me.

When you're the only one to cross a particular line among many other people, don't be surprised when you get called out. The lines may be fuzzy, sure, or it might be a pretty clear-cut case (such as, smoking weed in a crowded audience during a tech talk), but regardless you should try to have an idea of how your actions might affect those around you.

As a thought exercise, ask yourself if it would be okay for everyone to be doing what you are currently doing. Say, heckling the presenter, or using illicit substances, or even just talking to the person next to you. If an audience full of people heckling, smoking up, or chattering to each other would be counter-productive to the presenter's ability to present and/or an individual's enjoyment of the event, maybe you should consider not doing it yourself.
Is this caused by the link with bitcoins, or is it simply because they used "amazon" in the name?
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Close... but the business model for most of these operations is traffic generation. Need 1M uniques this month to hit your numbers? No worries!! Enter your credit card here!
False dichotomy though, the chair is good for your health, the keyboard enhances productivity. The diamond on the other hand is just an outdated symbol of wealth that you flaunt around like it matters and brings nothing to the table but suffering and economic exploitation.
> women as a whole are swayed more by marketing then men are

Either you provide a scientific cite for that claim or that is a straight up sexist statement. In case you haven't heard there's a lot of stupid irrational purchasing behavior by guys too.
That would still be progress, and the fact that bitcoin's value is dictated by democratic fiat rather than governmental fiat is still very powerful and a major differentiator. It is more similar to gold than cash in that respect.
I heard the suit is making a comeback! Forget diamonds, a Suit is a real investment in yourself!
I did a fair amount of research on this when shopping for my wife, and couldn't find any decent sized (say, larger than ~1/2 carat) clear synthetic diamonds. There were some options in yellow or pink, but I didn't find a thriving manufactured diamond industry I thought I would find.

Regardless, even if I had, manufacturers of gem grade diamonds wouldn't need to undercut the price of natural diamonds by much. The cartel has done all the hard work raising the price for them already. Market them at 90% of natural diamonds and reap the rewards.
If it is really true that your software is mind-boggling useful and novel, that is a nice thing to shoot for.

The article in question is talking about enterprise software. And even if your software is clean and beautiful, if it is actually doing something important, it probably must accomplish that task in a complex environment, e.g. does it have to play nice with legacy systems?

For software companies who have a merely great idea, 98% of your potential customers are going to ignore you if they lack confidence that the implementation will succeed. Self-serve is a useful idea, but you may be setting a very high bar for yourself. Maybe that is the right move; maybe that is setting yourself up for failure.
So then it truly becomes just another collector's item, but one where when you "cash out" it's all automatically reported?

Why not just trade in something else like gold or coins, where you can buy and sell without having a state security system looking over your shoulder?

I frankly don't know if I'm a fan or not. I haven't been, but the movement seems persistent, and I admire that. I also admire the concept of trying to use technology to free us from ever-more-oppressive governments. However I'm cautious: BC is "version 1.0". Might take until version 3 or so to get the bugs worked out.

I just hate seeing a lot of really smart people work hard to end up in the same spot they started from.
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