Hacker News on 29 December 2014

• Quake on an oscilloscope
• Nashville police chief shares message, responds to questions
• Software engineers should write
• The best things and stuff of 2014
• How Paul Graham Is Wrong
• Gmail blocked in China
• The Benefits of Being Cold
• If you're using YYYY in your JVM service or %G in anything, fix it now
• William Gibson: How I wrote Neuromancer
• On the new Snowden documents