Hacker News Books

Years > 2011 > Week 44

The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Oct 31, 2011 - Nov 7, 2011

Join 4,200+ subscribers and get an email every Thursday with the best books being discussed on Hacker News...

Showing 1 - 30 of 30 books

This way out;: A guide to alternatives to traditional college education in the United States, Europe and the Third World cover

1. This way out;: A guide to alternatives to traditional college education in the United States, Europe and the Third World

by John Coyne, Tom Hebert

Read 2 comments

Cover coming…

2. The Independent Scholar's Handbook

by Ronald Gross

The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine cover

3. The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine

by Charles Petzold

Read 7 comments

Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture cover

4. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner

Read 28 comments

The Cartoon Guide to the Computer cover

5. The Cartoon Guide to the Computer

by Larry Gonnick

Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk cover

6. Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk

by Richard Grinold, Ronald Kahn

Read 4 comments

The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition) cover

7. The Non-Designer's Design Book (3rd Edition)

by Robin Williams

Read 17 comments

Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners cover

8. Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners

by Larry Harris

Read 14 comments

Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement cover

9. Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement

by John Hattie

Read 5 comments

The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals (McGraw-Hill Library of Investment and Finance) cover

10. The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals (McGraw-Hill Library of Investment and Finance)

by Alex Kuznetsov

Read 3 comments

Being Right or Making Money cover

11. Being Right or Making Money

by Ned Davis, Ned Davis Research, Inc

The Triumph of Contrarian Investing : Crowds, Manias, and Beating the Market by Going Against the Grain cover

12. The Triumph of Contrarian Investing : Crowds, Manias, and Beating the Market by Going Against the Grain

by Nathan E. Davis

The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society cover

13. The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What it Means for Business and Society

by Eric D. Beinhocker

Read 7 comments

Algorithmic Trading and DMA: An introduction to direct access trading strategies cover

14. Algorithmic Trading and DMA: An introduction to direct access trading strategies

by Barry Johnson

Read 6 comments

Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime cover

15. Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime

by Aubrey de Grey, Michael Rae

Read 10 comments

Too Many Women?: The Sex Ratio Question cover

16. Too Many Women?: The Sex Ratio Question

by Marcia Guttentag, Paul F. Secord

Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business cover

17. Quantitative Trading: How to Build Your Own Algorithmic Trading Business

by Ernie Chan

Read 5 comments

Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals cover

18. Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals

by David Aronson

Read 2 comments

An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance cover

19. An Introduction to High-Frequency Finance

by Michel M. Dacorogna

Read 3 comments

Pairs Trading: Quantitative Methods and Analysis cover

20. Pairs Trading: Quantitative Methods and Analysis

by Ganapathy Vidyamurthy

Learn to Program (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

21. Learn to Program (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Chris Pine

Operating System Design: The XINU Approach (v. 1) cover

22. Operating System Design: The XINU Approach (v. 1)

by Douglas Comer

The Definitive Guide to SQLite (Expert's Voice in Open Source) cover

23. The Definitive Guide to SQLite (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

by Grant Allen

Read 2 comments

Principles of Economics cover

24. Principles of Economics

by N. Gregory Mankiw

Read 4 comments

My War cover

25. My War

by Andy Rooney

Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design cover

26. Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design

by Robert Hoekman

Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend cover

27. Unauthorized Freud: Doubters Confront a Legend

by Frederick C. Crews

Read 2 comments

Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience cover

28. Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience

by Frank Cioffi

Read 2 comments

Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle cover

29. Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

by Dan Senor, Saul Singer

Read 4 comments

Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming cover

30. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming

by Peter Seibel

Read 21 comments