Fourth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9443897
Third: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9394397
Second: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9342886
First: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8918181
Crofutt's Transcontinental Tourist's Guide, 1872 edition - George Crofutt. A guide from the era of the towns and sights you'd see on the Central Pacific Railroad.
Various editions of The Commercial And Financial Chronicle from the 1870s. Lots of railroad financial data. (Google Books has tons of this kinda thing!)
The Book: Playing The Percentages In Baseball - Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman, Andrew Dolphin. For a website project I'm working on.
The Second Machine Age - Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew Mcafee. Theories on what's happening to society now and in the future thanks to the things tech people are doing.
The Year's Best Science Fiction, 2013 - Gardner Dozois, ed. I'm writing and submitting sci-fi short stories these days, so keeping up with what's out there.
I bring it up because the person that heads up Makeout Creek in RVA just finished editing a collection of SciFi/ish shorts.
Full disclosure: I am entering one of my stories and the people that run Makeout Creek are personal friends.
Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python [1] Going through it as an introduction into Data Science and ML, that are hot topics now. As someone whose daily job is building infrastructure to process sensors' data, I would like to learn more how to make sense of them.
[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10884.Einstein
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25407018-data-science-fr...
The Art of Deception by Kevin Mitnick - how Social Engineers work. A bit more boring than Ghost in The Wires, but still pretty cool.
Please keep up the book club, I love this kind of topics!
Principles of Program Design, Michael Jackson. I found a very good copy with free shipping for less than $5.00. It is absolutely brilliant. It is a conventional technical book style presentation of the many software engineering principles SICP presents using new journalism techniques. One of the cool things is that Jackson dogfoods his methodology to illustrate deeper computer science concepts (e.g. the necessity of a start state for a state machine) with practical examples rather than theory. It does more showing than telling.
</rather late book report>
The relief staff in the bullpen includes:
Programming Clojure, Stuart Halloway.
Elements of ML Programming, Jeff Ullman.
Extreme Programming in Practice, Newkirk and Bob.
It's a great collection of short stories.
Once a Hero -- Elizabeth Moon
Shaman -- Kim Stanley Robinson
Probably Approximately Correct -- Leslie Valiant
Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet -- Kerryn Higgs
Prosperity Without Growth -- Tim Jackson
Was a free book on my new Kobo Touch, bought the next two books in that series and now in the middle of the second book. Nice plot and writing.
Trying to finish it before next week when I will drop everything to read:
Seveneves - Neal Stephenson
which comes out on Tuesday.