It's because Asian-Americans statistically score much higher than white Americans so the competition is fierce.

If you check the "Asian" box when you take the SATs, you actually get points deducted from your overall score.

I'm not sure what started it, but the vicious cycle of over-achieving continues to make it so they need to get extremely high scores to be accepted to many ivy-league universities.

On top of this, most universities in the US have student quotas based on ethnicity, instead of basing admission on merit.

One breaking point?

The majority of the libraries that I use don't even work properly in Python 3. The standard Mysql library for instance, which is used in the majority of ORMs (including SQLalchemy) isn't included in Python 3, which means you need to make major changes/try to use a different library.

The case of many standard libraries were changed, breaking lots of code. Example: ConfigParser to configparser.

Even simple things like print 'test' is now print('test')

These are only a few examples. There are lots of other major changes that break 2.X code.

I have been using Python 2.X for all of my projects and wanted so badly to change to 3.x for my new projects. However, because of all incompatibilities, I can't.

I don't think I'm alone on this either. Python 3.X still isn't being used by the majority of developers.

http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39637&sid=b6a11...

You mean to tell me that this is actually a bad idea?

But it really only hurts the small business trying to eek out a living. Small businesses will go under and what's left will be large conglomerates.

Hacker news seems to be a popular place for people that no nothing about economics and do everything in their power to willingly give up markets to the likes of large companies like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.

The interesting part is that that then there's outrage when the above companies abuse their monopoly...when the regulations and culture that you supported created them in the first place!

No worries though. Developers will continue to come back to HN and bitch about losing their high paying development jobs.

I'm tired of trying to defend stupid...and just do what everyone else does and capitalize on it instead. The company that writes the most popular Ad block extension has done just this: you can pay to get yourself on a white list. Tell me again how this has anything to do with saving people from malware?

I've done my part for society.

It's amazing that there are so many smart people that can't see the forest through the trees.

I can bet they will get more resume call backs.

Scary. 1984 is alive and well...

I suppose it's a good parallel to the drug laws: you push people to the illegal market when it becomes impossible to get what you want through the ethical/legal route.

It's the same with many other frameworks and languages. Most of these drastic changes have to do with the politics of the community

I still disagree that it doesn't have anything to do with money. You can't deny the fact that the majority of these communities make money on books, speaking engagements, and consulting.

The only time I've seen this is when I've gone to shady websites (porn, filesharing, etc). Legitimate websites don't want to piss off their user base and don't have ads like this.

"The problem is that much of the times ads are disruptive, annoying, and potentially harmful"

Do you have statistics to back this up? We seem to need scientific evidence in every other case, but with things like this, you can pull it out of thin air.

There are a small percentage of ads that are disruptive, but the majority are not. It sounds to me like Sysadmins need to start doing their job.

"The advertising industry, and those that employ it, need to aggressively move against bad practices, or the consumers will continue to do it for them."

The consumers will only get punished. Ads are on their way out. What's becoming more popular? Paywalls, ads disguised as movies/videos/actual content.

Think of things like Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz. This is the direct result of consumers creating a culture of avoiding ads.

How about if all of the major Internet providers decide to cut off anyone trying to use Bittorrent because of a small percentage of people abusing it for illegal content??

This is the equivalent of adblocker: punishing all businesses for the actions of a few. Funny how the same people that are against this behavior has no problem using it when it is in their favor.

More bullshit hypocrisy.

It's not the only way to make money on the Internet, but it is one of the only ways someone with very little money can actually make a living on the Internet.

One more example of the tech community helping large companies take over entire industries and make it nearly impossible to start a company without massive capital.

It started with open source: Businesses now can take entire open source apps, which were engineered for free, and hire software mechanics at 1/4 the cost.

Napster and file sharing only made it impossible for the average independent artist to make a living on music. I know a handful of artists that could at least make a decent living before file sharing changed the mindset of the average user. Now, nobody will buy their music because they can just get it for free. Services like Spotify are a joke with nearly 1 million plays netting the artist something like $100.

Think about it next time you see these articles that claim that the only way to have a successful business is to come from a rich family and realize that the reason this is the case is because of increased government regulations and a community culture that supports the further destruction of small businesses.

On top of this, I don't know how they aren't getting fined by the government for anti-competitive practices. They actively use the data from marketplace sellers to compete by undercutting.

In many of the categories you are now required to give them all of your supplier information. Within a short period of time after you do this, Amazon sells the exact same product at a much lower cost. This is not a coincidence.

Policing of the marketplace is also done by bots and once you are banned, there is really no way to talk to anyone to get your situation resolved. They also keep all of your money for as much as 180 days. It's a slap in the face for large sellers that are making Amazon lots of money (16%+ of every transaction).

You also aren't allowed to have any contact information (unlike Ebay, for instance). This means you aren't building a business at all. You are merely selling products on behalf of Amazon. As a buyer, I find this frustrating because in many cases, Amazon won't help the buyer and say that the transaction is between the customer and the buyer, not Amazon itself.

Perl 6, PHP 6 (which was never released), the disaster that is Python 2/3 (many standard libraries were renamed breaking a ton of libraries, and now Angular.

PHP, which is hated by many here because it isn't hip, at least allows you to run 4 code on the 5 interpreter with no issues.

When Microsoft did this with VB back in the 90s, which caused DLL hell, the community raged. Now it's a normal part of development.

I feel like it's only about the money. Many open source communities make money on support only and can charge companies lots of money to make the shift. It also means tutorials, books, speaking engagements, etc.

So..nothing to see here, it's 'settled science'.