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bluepanda_on Microsoft Announces Direct Cash Payments For Vulnerabilities

Indeed, there is progress for whoever finds these vulnerabilities. And I'm sure they wouldn't mind doubling their salary.

bluepanda_on Microsoft Announces Direct Cash Payments For Vulnerabilities

You just ruined my hopes of making an annual salary in an evening.

> The work required to build reliable exploits against hardened Windows can take months.

bluepanda_on Microsoft Announces Direct Cash Payments For Vulnerabilities

$150k

bluepanda_on Microsoft Announces Direct Cash Payments For Vulnerabilities

$150 for mitigation bypass and a defensive solution? That's one way to make an annual salary.

bluepanda_on Ask HN: Do you build tools whose end user is just you?

Thanks for quantifying it, that will be useful.

bluepanda_on Ask HN: Do you build tools whose end user is just you?

Open-sourcing it would be a good idea, as other developers could potentially fix it for you.

bluepanda_on Ask HN: Do you build tools whose end user is just you?

Congrats, that's amazing!

bluepanda_on Ask HN: Do you build tools whose end user is just you?

That makes sense. Thank you.

bluepanda_on iOS 7

+1 on stock Android 4.2 looking great and being very usable. +1 on iOS7 and stock Android 4.2 looking way too similar.

bluepanda_on Ask HN: What money management tool do you use?

It'd work best if I fork it and and it myself. Less work for you, more customization for me. :)

bluepanda_on Ask HN: What money management tool do you use?

It would be perfect if I could add one-time expense/income.

bluepanda_on Ask HN: What money management tool do you use?

Thanks for all the suggestions. To be more specific, my situation is that I'll be making $x this summer, in addition to making $y/month and spending $z/month. I need to visualize these data to determine whether I can afford to make that $x/k expense (i.e: expense that represents a part of x that is less than x) and still have a margin m, where m is defined as financial "safety". Sorry if it's confusing, but I hope it makes sense.
As smartician suggested, Mint is great to get an overview of one's finance, but it doesn't let me visualize the above amounts.
As ragatskynet suggested, spreadsheets are the most obvious choice, and the fact that I can "complicate them to the level [I] want" should allow me to plot the above amounts as I need, but I was trying to find a more elegant way to do this than using excel.
I will be looking into the other suggestions. stevekemp's seems to be just what I need.

bluepanda_on Tell HN: Looking to build my portfolio. Will design for cheap.

Learning front-end coding can not only increase your chances of getting hired, but it can also broaden your perspective of web design.

bluepanda_on Tell HN: Looking to build my portfolio. Will design for cheap.

Can you code in HTML/CSS/JavaScript? Or do you only design mockups?

bluepanda_on Ask HN: How many hours of sleep are you getting?

I got the Fitbit One. You have to manually tell it you're about to sleep and you just woke up, then it tells you how long you stayed in bed, how many times you woke up, and how much deep sleep you had.
Based on that, I averaged that I needed 8 hours of in-bed time to get 7 hours of deep sleep, and then I had no need for the device anymore. Until my sleep patterns change.

bluepanda_on Poll: HN Linux users, what desktop environmemt do you use?

I have the exact same config, without urxvt. Awesome is great. Really lightweight and fast, like Arch, actually.

bluepanda_on Kevin Rose interviews Elon Musk [video]

"I wasn't sure if that meant starting a company of if that meant working for a company that makes cool stuff," so I did both and started a company that makes cool stuff. Nbd, guys.

bluepanda_on Rich desktop app for HTML/CSS authoring

It looks great, but isn't it risky to force people use an IDE? A lot of developers like to work in their own environment.

bluepanda_on Eighteen months of Django

Interesting post. I decided to use Django for our startup because Python was a requirement, we're planning to have a lot of customers, and Django seems like the most appropriate choice for large scale apps. While I've mostly used non-rel databases, I'll be using postgresql as a database, because it seems to be highly compatible with Django, because Heroku makes scaling it easy, and because it's a good occasion to learn some RDBMS.

bluepanda_on Interviewing in Silicon Valley

I've seen so many posts about interview rants, including one I wrote myself, that I feel like the problem lies in the higher demand than supply of positions, and that interviews, not matter what bad feedback they seem to give, aren't that poorly designed.