15:[[4434183,{"by":"esusatyo","descendants":3,"id":4434183,"kids":[4434372,4434548,4439849],"score":3,"text":"","time":1345950589,"title":"Translation of Samsung's Response","type":"story","url":"http://esusatyo.net/post/30215775873/translation-of-samsungs-response"}],[3994755,{"by":"bbeausej","descendants":2,"id":3994755,"kids":[3994834,3995000],"score":10,"text":"\"It's the worst law that I've ever seen, except for the War Measures Act,\" said law professor Lucie Lemonde, referring to the notorious legislation imposed in Quebec during the 1970 FLQ crisis.","time":1337388526,"title":"Quebec Adopts Emergency Law To End Tuition Crisis","type":"story","url":"http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/18/quebec-emergency-law_n_1528889.html?ref=canada"}],[3663175,{"by":"sendos","descendants":132,"id":3663175,"kids":[3663375,3663517,3663560,3663222,3663217,3663346,3663472,3663243,3663231,3664144,3664223,3663818,3663356,3665241,3663206,3664152,3666094,3666332,3663985,3663862,3663241,3663888,3664335,3663553,3663388,3663616,3663362,3664562,3665121,3663385,3663228,3663200,3665178,3663678,3665194,3665361,3664099,3665423,3663294,3664007,3663809],"score":250,"time":1330881265,"title":"Dude, it's a laptop you want, not an iPad","type":"story","url":"http://andrewoneverything.com/dude-its-a-laptop-you-want-not-an-ipad"}],[3544781,{"by":"kapgoals","descendants":5,"id":3544781,"kids":[3544867,3545468,3546759,3548250,3544834],"score":9,"text":"","time":1328221455,"title":"Saving money with Regular Gas in your Premium car?...Better do the math.","type":"story","url":"http://autoglance.com/blog/view/9"}],[3338528,{"by":"infogaufire","dead":true,"descendants":1,"id":3338528,"kids":[3338584],"score":2,"text":"","time":1323551864,"title":"How many of you found Apparatus(Android Game), an undervalued game?Its so good","type":"story","url":"http://zuvvu.com/article.php?id=13f9896df61279c928f19721878fac41"}],[2864241,{"by":"wmat","descendants":1,"id":2864241,"kids":[2864480],"score":10,"text":"","time":1312901813,"title":"My Not So Great Visit to the Apple Store","type":"story","url":"http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/08/my-not-so-great-visit-to-the-apple-store/"}],[2856794,{"by":"rblion","dead":true,"descendants":6,"id":2856794,"kids":[2856855,2857021,2857033,2856831,2857079,2857049,2857085],"score":10,"text":"","time":1312730983,"title":"It's Official: Apple Is Now More 'Open' than Google","type":"story","url":"http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/27060/"}],[2778464,{"by":"veb","dead":true,"descendants":1,"id":2778464,"kids":[2778571,2778634],"score":7,"text":"","time":1311026220,"title":"Will Google+ Kill Social Completely","type":"story","url":"http://spottedsun.com/will-google-kill-social-completely/"}],[2749652,{"by":"sidgoyal","descendants":5,"id":2749652,"kids":[2749763,2749852,2749786,2749827,2749777],"score":4,"text":"","time":1310364416,"title":"Few things about Google Plus you didnt notice","type":"story","url":"http://sidgoyal.blinkk.me/few-things-about-google-plus-you-didnt-notice-37"}],[2714339,{"by":"blackshtef","descendants":16,"id":2714339,"kids":[2714415,2714802,2714550,2714555,2714528,2714490,2737477,2714525,2748022,2737469,2737217,2758752,2741535,2722040,2732284,2741533,2738026,2734198,2737985,2732894,2725382,2738260,2726601,2733996,2728564,2733999,2726363,2726218,2739953,2738988,2738093,2737970,2737441,2732982,2732981,2732752,2732751,2742283,2732821,2742284,2733991,2733191],"score":6,"text":"Google releases Orkut, their social network service on January 24th, 2004. Orkut gets popular in India and Brasil. On February 9th of 2010 we got Google Buzz, which was criticized over and over again. In the meantime, Facebook and Twitter conquered social media and are probably laughing at Google which services keep stumbling.

But now, Google has some new shiny technology in the form of Google+, a set of services that should get you into Google’s social networking world. Unfortunately, it won’t. You won’t.","time":1309446753,"title":"The Future of Google+? Log in, look around and log out","type":"story","url":"http://www.domain.me/blog/the-future-of-google-plus-1769"}],[2591907,{"by":"sahillavingia","descendants":21,"id":2591907,"kids":[2592278,2593794,2592330,2592339,2591971,2592766,2592461,2592552],"score":50,"time":1306512120,"title":"Friends to Gmail","type":"story","url":"http://www.friendstogmail.com/"}],[2432778,{"by":"nopassrecover","descendants":114,"id":2432778,"kids":[2432886,2432869,2435357,2433362,2432909,2432898,2432945,2433582,2432850,2432884,2432849,2432876,2432888,2432906,2432910,2433627,2432915,2432854,2433717,2433332,2432892,2432852,2433440,2433001,2433936,2433859,2433239,2433028,2433044,2434982,2433876,2434012,2433461,2434418,2434329,2433127,2433289,2434356,2434811,2435833,2433192,2433094,2434032,2433032,2433051],"score":262,"text":"In \"How to Make Wealth\" PG puts forward the following argument:

1. Assume a hacker can make a good wage working for someone else.

2. Assume a hacker can in turn be significantly more productive working for themselves.

3. All things being equal, a hacker should be able to make significantly more money by working for themselves (albeit at the cost of increased risk and stress).

The relevant quote: \"If a fairly good hacker is worth $80,000 a year at a big company, then a smart hacker working very hard ... should be able to do work worth about $3 million a year.\"

My question to HN is as follows:

Excluding outliers such as Gates/Zuckerberg, is the inference that a good hacker can make more from the market directly actually valid?

If so, why does it seem most hackers struggle to capture even half their regular wage from the market directly?

All advice/experiences appreciated.","time":1302534150,"title":"Ask HN: Why can't I make as much as I make?","type":"story"}]]

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