Hacker News on 31 December 2016

• Be Careful with Python's New-Style String Format
• The Memory Models That Underlie Programming Languages
• Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost: False Story About Hacking U.S. Electric Grid
• How to ask good questions
• PS4 hack: Fail0verflow demonstrate Linux and Steam running on Firmware 4.05
• EveryPolitician: Open dataset on politicians
• I'm at Fog Creek, and we're introducing Gomix
• Apt: please make the moo reproducible
• Deep Learning 2016: The Year in Review
• In 2017, I’m going to stop watching the news