Hacker News on 16 October 2012

• My son is schizophrenic. The ‘reforms’ that I worked for have worsened his life.
• Hacker News supports browsing with a points threshold
• IBM: The cost difference is too great for business not to look for H1B workers
• FiveThirtyEight: Over the Decades, How States Have Shifted
• How I Hired Someone On Craigslist And Quadrupled My Productivity
• A new kind of fractal?
• Data Mining 3.4 billion Web pages for $100 of EC2
• Why becoming a data scientist is not easier than you think
• Gary McKinnon saved from extradition to the US
• A Dragnet for Pee-Wee