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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jul 30, 2012 - Aug 6, 2012

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Programming Collective Intelligence cover

1. Programming Collective Intelligence

by Toby Segaran

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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror cover

2. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

by Thomas Ligotti

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The Mind's I: Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul cover

3. The Mind's I: Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul

by Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel Clement Dennett

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The Art of Memory cover

4. The Art of Memory

by Frances Amelia Yates

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The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security cover

5. The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

by Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon

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Math You Can't Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software cover

6. Math You Can't Use: Patents, Copyright, and Software

by Ben Klemens

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The Art of Lying cover

7. The Art of Lying

by Kazuo Sakai, Nakana Ide

Anathem cover

8. Anathem

by Neal Stephenson

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Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules cover

9. Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules

by Johnson, Jeff Ph. D.

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The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Algorithms and Data Structures series) cover

10. The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management (Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Algorithms and Data Structures series)

by Richard Jones, Antony Hosking, Eliot Moss

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Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency cover

11. Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

by Tom DeMarco

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Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web & Mobile Application Design (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter) cover

12. Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web & Mobile Application Design (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter)

by Robert Hoekman (Jr.), Robert Hoekman

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives cover

13. The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives

by Leonard Mlodinow

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Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market cover

14. Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market

by Scott Patterson

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

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

by Robin Williams

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Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability cover

16. Don't Make Me Think! A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

by Steve Krug

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Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

17. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World cover

18. Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World

by Dan Koeppel

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The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology) cover

19. The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)

by K. Anders Ericsson, Neil Charness, Paul J. Feltovich, Robert R. Hoffman

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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction cover

20. On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

by William Zinsser

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Hark! A Vagrant cover

21. Hark! A Vagrant

by Kate Beaton

Measurement cover

22. Measurement

by Paul Lockhart

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The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development cover

23. The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development

by Donald G. Reinertsen

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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code cover

24. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code

by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck

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Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time cover

25. Web Operations: Keeping the Data on Time

by John Allspaw, Jesse Robbins

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Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, Scaling, and Optimizing the Next Generation of Web Applications cover

26. Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, Scaling, and Optimizing the Next Generation of Web Applications

by Cal Henderson

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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition cover

27. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition

by Marc Reisner

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Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter cover

28. Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter

by Liz Wiseman, Greg McKeown

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Calculus: Early Transcendentals (Briggs/Cochran Calculus) cover

29. Calculus: Early Transcendentals (Briggs/Cochran Calculus)

by William L. Briggs, Lyle Cochran, Bernard Gillett

Search Engine Marketing, Inc.: Driving Search Traffic to Your Company's Web Site cover

30. Search Engine Marketing, Inc.: Driving Search Traffic to Your Company's Web Site

by Mike Moran, Bill Hunt

Algorithms of the Intelligent Web cover

31. Algorithms of the Intelligent Web

by Haralambos Marmanis, Dmitry Babenko

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Collective Intelligence in Action cover

32. Collective Intelligence in Action

by Satnam Alag

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Mahout in Action cover

33. Mahout in Action

by Sean Owen, Robin Anil, Ted Dunning

Machine Learning for Hackers cover

34. Machine Learning for Hackers

by Drew Conway, John White

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Machine Learning in Action cover

35. Machine Learning in Action

by Peter Harrington

Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight cover

36. Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight

by Paul Hoffman