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2017
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Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News during 2017.
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1. Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
by Tim Berners-Lee
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2. Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control and Recovery (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)
by Gerhard Weikum, Gottfried Vossen
Read 2 comments
3. Natural Language Processing Recipes: Unlocking Text Data with Machine Learning and Deep Learning using Python
Read 6 comments
4. Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice
by John F. Hughes
Read 8 comments
5. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
by Atul Gawande
Read 10 comments
6. Zoned Out
by Jonathan C. Levine
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7. Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
by Ha-Joon Chang
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8. The PC Is Not a Typewriter: A Style Manual for Creating Professional-Level Type on Your Personal Computer
by Robin Williams
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9. The Mac is Not a Typewriter, 2nd Edition
by Robin Williams
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10. Mathematics for the Nonmathematician
by Morris Kline
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11. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition
by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Stephen R. Covey
Read 8 comments
12. The Unix Programming Environment (Prentice-Hall Software Series)
by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike
Read 10 comments
13. Digital Fundamentals (10th Edition)
by Thomas L. Floyd
Read 1 comment
14. The World Beyond Your Head
by Matthew B. Crawford
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15. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It―A Guide to Starting a Business in a Productive and Successful Way
by Michael E. Gerber
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16. RESTful Web Clients
by Mike Amundsen
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17. Retargetable C Compiler, A: Design and Implementation
by Christopher W. Fraser, David R. Hanson
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18. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed: Revised Edition
by Jared Diamond
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19. The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
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20. Practical Foundations for Programming Languages
by Robert Harper
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21. Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
by Kevin P. Murphy
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22. Short Calculus: The Original Edition of “A First Course in Calculus” (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
by Serge Lang
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23. Elements of Programming
by Alexander A. Stepanov, Paul McJones
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24. Discrete Mathematics with Applications
by Susanna S. Epp
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25. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems
by Aurélien Géron
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26. Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller
by Donella Meadows
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27. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition
by Marc Reisner
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28. Radar - O’Reilly
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29. Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know
by Jim Camp
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30. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
by William B. Irvine
Read 21 comments
31. Make: Analog Synthesizers
by Ray Wilson (Electronics engineer)
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32. Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers (MSRI Mathematical Circles Library)
by Aleksandr Kalmanovich Zvonkin
Read 4 comments
33. Programming Rust
Read 13 comments
34. Programming Collective Intelligence
Read 30 comments
35. The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing)
by Leland Wilkinson
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36. The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact
by Edmond Lau
Read 8 comments
37. Who Owns the Sky?: Our Common Assets And The Future Of Capitalism
by Peter Barnes
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38. Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME): An Introduction
Read 6 comments
39. Getting Started in Electronics
by Forrest M. Mims
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40. McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
by Misha Glenny
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41. Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC
by Peter Norton, John Socha
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42. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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43. Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long, 2nd Edition
by Eliot Coleman
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44. Volume 2: Trends in European Television (Communication)
by Conseil de l'Europe,
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45. Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
by Christopher M. Bishop
Read 7 comments
46. The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
by M. Mitchell Waldrop
Read 16 comments
47. Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)
by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
Read 9 comments
48. Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices
by George Varghese
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49. Learning Swift, 2nd Edition
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50. Learning Swift
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51. Quantum Computing for Computer Scientists
by Noson S. Yanofsky, Mirco A. Mannucci
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52. The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
by Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending
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53. Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP
by Francesco Cesarini, Steve Vinoski
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54. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by Jonathan Haidt
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55. Flask Web Development
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56. Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman, Daniel Kahneman
Read 43 comments
57. Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training, 3rd edition
by Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore
Read 10 comments
58. Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
by Martin Kleppmann
Read 37 comments
59. The Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error'
by Professor Sidney Dekker
Read 12 comments
60. The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives
by Jesse Eisinger
Read 15 comments
61. Algorithms (4th Edition)
by Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne
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62. The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why
by Arthur Benjamin
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63. SVG Animations
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64. How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants
by David Rees
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65. Who Is Fourier?: A Mathematical Adventure
by Transnational College of Lex
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66. The Art of Electronics
by Paul Horowitz, Winfield Hill
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67. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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68. Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning (3 Volumes in One)
by Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, Andre? Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, M. A. Lavrent'ev
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69. The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error
by Sidney Dekker
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70. Counterexamples in Analysis
by Bernard R. Gelbaum, John M. H. Olmsted
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71. Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow
by Aurélien Géron
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72. Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality
by Don Watkins, Yaron Brook
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73. Behind Human Error
by David D. Woods, Sidney Dekker, Richard Cook
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74. Sound Reproduction: The Acoustics and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms (Audio Engineering Society Presents)
by Floyd E. Toole
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75. The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
by Steven Pressfield
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76. Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: The Updated Version of the Insightful Guide on Bringing Cutting-Edge Products to the Mainstream (Collins Business Essentials)
by Geoffrey A. Moore
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77. Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0 Book 1)
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78. Python for Data Analysis
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79. "Yellow Kid" Weil: The Autobiography of America's Master Swindler
by J. R. Weil
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80. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition
by Betty Edwards
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81. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by Tim Wu
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82. UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record
by Leslie Kean
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83. Debt: The First 5,000 Years
by David Graeber
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84. The Outsourced Self: What Happens When We Pay Others to Live Our Lives for Us
by Arlie Russell Hochschild
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85. Hack and HHVM
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86. Freebsd Mastery: Advanced Zfs
by Michael Lucas, Allan Jude
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87. FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS
by Michael Warren Lucas, Allan Jude
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88. Getting Results the Agile Way: A Personal Results System for Work and Life
by J. D. Meier
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89. Python for Data Analysis, 2nd Edition
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90. Think Stats
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91. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz
Read 7 comments
92. Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science
by Philip N. Klein
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93. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
by Jessica Livingston
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94. Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
by Peter Seibel
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95. Relativity: The Special and General Theory
by Albert Einstein
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96. The Kerbal Player's Guide
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97. Concurrency in Go
by Katherine Cox-Buday
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98. An Island to Oneself
by Tom Neale
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99. The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
by Olivia Fox Cabane
Read 6 comments
100. Equality and Achievement: An Introduction to the Sociology of Education (2nd Edition)
by Cornelius H. Riordan
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