Hacker News Books for 2014

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Hacker News Books for 2014

Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2014.

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Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error cover

201. Set Phasers on Stun: And Other True Tales of Design, Technology, and Human Error

by Steven Michael Casey

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Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, The cover

202. Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, The

by Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil, Robert N. M. Watson

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PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance cover

203. PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance

by Gregory Smith

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Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) cover

204. Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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Beautiful Code cover

205. Beautiful Code

by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson

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What You Can Change and What You Can't: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement cover

206. What You Can Change and What You Can't: The Complete Guide to Successful Self-Improvement

by Martin E.P. Seligman

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Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Edition cover

207. Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Edition

by Daniel P. Bovet

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Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Edition cover

208. Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Edition

by Daniel P. Bovet

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The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook cover

209. The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook

by Michael Kerrisk

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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster cover

210. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer

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Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline cover

211. Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline

by Mary Shaw, David Garlan

How to Lie with Statistics cover

212. How to Lie with Statistics

by Darrell Huff

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

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

by Alex Kuznetsov

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The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation (Springer Praxis Books) cover

214. The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation (Springer Praxis Books)

by Frank O'Brien

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The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles cover

215. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

by Steven Pressfield

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Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap cover

216. Teaching As Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap

by Steven Farr

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Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition cover

217. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition

by Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore

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Practical Programming for Strength Training cover

218. Practical Programming for Strength Training

by Mark Rippetoe

Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists cover

219. Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists

by Dennis Elliott Shasha

The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers cover

220. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers

by Tom Standage

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Pulse: Understanding the Vital Signs of Your Business cover

221. Pulse: Understanding the Vital Signs of Your Business

by Frank Coker

Don't Send a Resume: And Other Contrarian Rules to Help Land a Great Job cover

222. Don't Send a Resume: And Other Contrarian Rules to Help Land a Great Job

by Jeffery J Fox

Practical Electronics for Inventors cover

223. Practical Electronics for Inventors

by Paul Scherz, Simon Monk

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Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal cover

224. Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal

by Tom Shroder

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The Little Schemer - 4th Edition cover

225. The Little Schemer - 4th Edition

by Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen

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A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates cover

226. A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates

by Rand Corporation

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Federal Income Taxation (Concepts and Insights) cover

227. Federal Income Taxation (Concepts and Insights)

by MARVIN A.. ZELENAK CHIRELSTEIN (LAWRENCE.), Lawrence Zelenak

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Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems cover

228. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

by Martin Kleppmann

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Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning cover

229. Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning

by J. Marshall Unger

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The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy cover

230. The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy

by John DeFrancis

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Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems cover

231. Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems

by John DeFrancis

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Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima cover

232. Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima

by James A. Mahaffey

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Cusp cover

233. Cusp

by Robert A. Metzger

Real World Haskell cover

234. Real World Haskell

by Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, Don Stewart

Calculus by Michael Spivak - 4th Edition (Calculus 4th edition by Michael Spivak) cover

235. Calculus by Michael Spivak - 4th Edition (Calculus 4th edition by Michael Spivak)

by Michael Spivak

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PHP: The Good Parts cover

236. PHP: The Good Parts

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Confessions of an Advertising Man cover

237. Confessions of an Advertising Man

by David Ogilvy

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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams cover

238. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

by Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister

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O'Reilly Media Acquires Full Ownership of Safari Books Online cover

239. O'Reilly Media Acquires Full Ownership of Safari Books Online

Social Engineering cover

240. Social Engineering

by Christopher Hadnagy

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Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software cover

241. Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software

by Eric Evans

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The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.: The Definitive Book on Value Investing cover

242. The Intelligent Investor Rev Ed.: The Definitive Book on Value Investing

by Benjamin Graham

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Managing Projects with GNU Make, 3rd Edition cover

243. Managing Projects with GNU Make, 3rd Edition

by Robert Mecklenburg, Robert William Mecklenburg

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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Box Set cover

244. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Box Set

by Hayao Miyazaki

The Cat in Numberland cover

245. The Cat in Numberland

by Ivar Ekeland

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Human Universals cover

246. Human Universals

by Donald Brown

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Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality cover

247. Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

by Edward Frenkel

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Data-Driven Modeling & Scientific Computation: Methods for Complex Systems & Big Data cover

248. Data-Driven Modeling & Scientific Computation: Methods for Complex Systems & Big Data

by Jose Nathan

Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics) cover

249. Poetry of the First World War: An Anthology (Oxford World's Classics)

by Tim Kendall

Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It cover

250. Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

by Gary Taubes

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Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human cover

251. Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

by Richard W. Wrangham

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Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master On The Fundamentals Of Intelligence Gathering For A Free World cover

252. Craft of Intelligence: America's Legendary Spy Master On The Fundamentals Of Intelligence Gathering For A Free World

by Allen Dulles

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie cover

253. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

by Laura Joffe Numeroff

Secure Coding in C and C++ (SEI Series in Software Engineering) cover

254. Secure Coding in C and C++ (SEI Series in Software Engineering)

by Robert C. Seacord

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The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public cover

255. The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public

by Lynn Stout

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Engineering: A Compiler cover

256. Engineering: A Compiler

by Keith D. Cooper

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

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

by David Kushner

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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison cover

258. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

by Michel Foucault, mechil foucault, Simon Prebble

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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents cover

259. Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents

by Ellen Ullman

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

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

by Barry Johnson

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What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter cover

261. What Is Relativity?: An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter

by Jeffrey O. Bennett

Nine Kinds Of Naked: A Wildly Entertaining Surreal Comedy – Funny Satire Exploring Chaos Theory cover

262. Nine Kinds Of Naked: A Wildly Entertaining Surreal Comedy – Funny Satire Exploring Chaos Theory

by Tony Vigorito

Still Life with Woodpecker: A Novel cover

263. Still Life with Woodpecker: A Novel

by Tom Robbins

Simple C++: Featuring Robodog and the Profound Object-Oriented Programming Method (Poop) cover

264. Simple C++: Featuring Robodog and the Profound Object-Oriented Programming Method (Poop)

by Jeffrey M. Cogswell

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The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers cover

265. The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

by Robert C. Martin

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In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State cover

266. In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State

by Charles A. Murray

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Breaking the Mishap Chain: Human Factors Lessons Learned from Aerospace Accidents and Incidents in Research, Flight Test, and Development (NASA Aeronoutics Book) cover

267. Breaking the Mishap Chain: Human Factors Lessons Learned from Aerospace Accidents and Incidents in Research, Flight Test, and Development (NASA Aeronoutics Book)

by Peter W. Merlin, Gregg A. Bendrick, Dwight A. Holland

How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 2nd Edition cover

268. How to Prove It: A Structured Approach, 2nd Edition

by Daniel J. Velleman

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In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters cover

269. In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters

by Merrill R. (Rick) Chapman

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Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace cover

270. Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace

by Ricardo Semler

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There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America cover

271. There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America

by Wilson, William J., Richard P. Taub

Healing Lyme: Natural Healing and Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis and Its Coinfections cover

272. Healing Lyme: Natural Healing and Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis and Its Coinfections

by Stephen Harrod Buhner

Bad Data Handbook cover

273. Bad Data Handbook

by Q. Ethan McCallum

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Meditations cover

274. Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

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Pot Shards: Fragments of a Life Lived in CIA, the White House, and the Two Koreas cover

275. Pot Shards: Fragments of a Life Lived in CIA, the White House, and the Two Koreas

by Donald P. Gregg

Patterns in Nature cover

276. Patterns in Nature

by Peter S. Stevens

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated cover

277. The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do, Revised and Updated

by Judith Rich Harris

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A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core cover

278. A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core

by Enrico Perla, Massimiliano Oldani

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The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) cover

279. The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

by Brian W. Kernighan

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Walking Softly in the Wilderness: The Sierra Club Guide to Backpacking (Sierra Club Outdoor Adventure Guide) cover

280. Walking Softly in the Wilderness: The Sierra Club Guide to Backpacking (Sierra Club Outdoor Adventure Guide)

by Hart, John

Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) cover

281. Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

by Joe Celko

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Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (2nd Edition) cover

282. Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (2nd Edition)

by Randal E. Bryant, Davie Richard O'Hallaron

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501 French Verbs (Barron's Foreign Language Guides) (French and English Edition) cover

283. 501 French Verbs (Barron's Foreign Language Guides) (French and English Edition)

by Christopher Kendris, Theodore Kendris

War is a Racket: The Profit Motive Behind Warfare cover

284. War is a Racket: The Profit Motive Behind Warfare

by Smedley Butler

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Python for Data Analysis cover

285. Python for Data Analysis

by Wes McKinney

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Death is Wrong cover

286. Death is Wrong

by Gennady Stolyarov II

The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next cover

287. The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next

by Lee Smolin

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ClojureScript: Up and Running cover

288. ClojureScript: Up and Running

by Stuart Sierra, Luke VanderHart

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Clojure Cookbook cover

289. Clojure Cookbook

by Luke VanderHart, Ryan Neufeld

Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed cover

290. Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

by James C. Scott

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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer cover

291. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Term Sheets & Valuations - A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Term Sheets & Valuations (Bigwig Briefs) cover

292. Term Sheets & Valuations - A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Term Sheets & Valuations (Bigwig Briefs)

by Alex Wilmerding

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The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime cover

293. The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime

by M. J. DeMarco

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Authority: Become an Expert, Build a Following, and Gain Financial Independence cover

294. Authority: Become an Expert, Build a Following, and Gain Financial Independence

by Nathan Barry

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Advanced Perl Programming, 2nd Edition cover

295. Advanced Perl Programming, 2nd Edition

by Sriram Srinivasan, Simon Cozens

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

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

by Scott Patterson

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How the Irish Became White (Routledge Classics) cover

297. How the Irish Became White (Routledge Classics)

by Noel Ignatiev

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The Design of the UNIX Operating System cover

298. The Design of the UNIX Operating System

by Maurice J. Bach

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But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone cover

299. But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone

by J. Clark Scott

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Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages) cover

300. Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia (Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages)

by Josef W. Meri