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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Nov 16, 2015 - Nov 23, 2015

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Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

1. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston

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Little Black Classics Box Set (Penguin Little Black Classics) cover

2. Little Black Classics Box Set (Penguin Little Black Classics)

by Various

Development of the Space Shuttle, 1972-1981 (History of the Space Shuttle, Volume 2) cover

3. Development of the Space Shuttle, 1972-1981 (History of the Space Shuttle, Volume 2)

by Heppenheimer Ta

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The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Second Edition (Springer Series in Statistics) cover

4. The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Second Edition (Springer Series in Statistics)

by Jerome Friedman, Robert Tibshirani

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Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics) cover

5. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)

by Christopher M. Bishop

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The Origins of AIDS cover

6. The Origins of AIDS

by Jacques Pepin

Machine Learning for Hackers cover

7. Machine Learning for Hackers

by Drew Conway, John White

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Refuting ISIS: A Rebuttal Of Its Religious And Ideological Foundations cover

8. Refuting ISIS: A Rebuttal Of Its Religious And Ideological Foundations

Programmer's Guide to Drupal cover

9. Programmer's Guide to Drupal

by Jennifer Hodgdon

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain cover

10. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

by John J. Ratey

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Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead cover

11. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

by Brené Brown

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Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor High-Performance Programming cover

12. Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor High-Performance Programming

by Jim Jeffers, James Reinders

Show Me A Hero cover

13. Show Me A Hero

by Lisa Belkin

Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise cover

14. Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise

by Manfred Robert Schroeder

Introduction to the Theory of Computation cover

15. Introduction to the Theory of Computation

by Michael Sipser

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Enemies: A History of the FBI cover

16. Enemies: A History of the FBI

by Tim Weiner

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Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft cover

17. Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

by G. Pascal Zachary

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Only the Paranoid Survive cover

18. Only the Paranoid Survive

by Andrew S. Grove

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How to Win Friends & Influence People cover

19. How to Win Friends & Influence People

by Dale Carnegie

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The Don't Go Hungry Diet cover

20. The Don't Go Hungry Diet

by Amanda Sainsbury-Salis

The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (A Burton & Swinburne Adventure) cover

21. The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack (A Burton & Swinburne Adventure)

by Mark Hodder

Explorabook: A Kid's Science Museum in a Book cover

22. Explorabook: A Kid's Science Museum in a Book

by John Cassidy

Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird cover

23. Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird

by Andrew D. Blechman

The Art of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from around the World cover

24. The Art of Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and Processes from around the World

by Sandor Ellix Katz

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Vegetarian Sports Nutrition cover

25. Vegetarian Sports Nutrition

by D. Enette Larson-Meyer

Probability and Statistics (4th Edition) cover

26. Probability and Statistics (4th Edition)

by Morris H. DeGroot, Mark J. Schervish

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures) cover

27. Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Vintage Departures)

by Daniel Leonard Everett

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Algorithms cover

28. Algorithms

by Umesh Vazirani, Algorithms, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Algorithms, Sanjoy Dasgupta, Algorithms

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