I can't speak on too many scrapers, but Selenium offers a whole lot over just Web scraping. It's a wonderful tool to automate functonal tests, perform monotonous tasks, and other handy things.
If you do any sort of Web development, I would recommend writing tests using it. It's quite easy to pick up, and is available in different languages, and for different browsers.
I got my copy today! Ordered it after reading a related comment on a previous HN discussion. I have high expectations with this one especially after reading the reviews on Goodreads.
Nassim Taleb said this about the NYT list: "There is close to ZERO probability that a "Notable book" in the NYT will be discussed in 5-20 years. Look at 1990-2009 lists."
OK, but what's the value in that statement–what does "discussed" mean for him? Looking at the 2009 list, there are plenty of books still circulating in discourse. Asterious Polyp and the Dan Chaon, Margaret Atwood and Jonathan Lethem novels are still quite talked about. Without context, I'm going to assume that is this just an acerbic, arms-crossed way to snub a popularly considered list.
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The list:
Category: FICTION & POETRY
1. 'All Our Names' by Dinaw Mengestu
2. 'All The Birds, Singing' by Evie Wyld
3. 'All The Light We Cannot See' by Anthony Doerr
4. 'American Innovations' by Rivka Galchen
5. 'The Assassination Of Margaret Thatcher: Stories' by Hilary Mantel
6. 'The Ballad Of A Small Player' by Lawrence Osborne
7. 'Bark: Stories' by Lorrie Moore
8. 'The Blazing World' by Siri Hustvedt
9. 'The Bone Clocks' by David Mitchell
10. 'The Book Of Strange New Things' by Michel Faber
11. 'The Book Of Unknown Americans' by Cristina Henríquez
12. 'Boy, Snow, Bird' by Helen Oyeyemi
13. 'A Brief History Of Seven Killings' by Marlon James
14. 'Can’t And Won’t' by Lydia Davis
15. 'The Cold Song' by Linn Ullmann. Translated by Barbara J. Haveland
16. 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage' by Haruki Murakami. Translated by Philip Gabriel
17. 'Dept. Of Speculation' by Jenny Offill
18. 'The Dog' by Joseph O’Neill
19. 'Euphoria' by Lily King
20. 'Everything I Never Told You' by Celeste Ng
21. 'F' by Daniel Kehlmann. Translated by Carol Brown Janeway
22. 'Faithful And Virtuous Night' by Louise Glück
23. 'Family Life' by Akhil Sharma
24. 'Fourth Of July Creek' by Smith Henderson
25. 'A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing' by Eimear McBride
26. 'I Pity The Poor Immigrant' by Zachary Lazar
27. 'The Laughing Monsters' by Denis Johnson
28. 'Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel' by tten and illustrated by Anya Ulinich
29. 'Let Me Be Frank With You: A Frank Bascombe Book' by Richard Ford
30. 'Lila' by Marilynne Robinson
31. 'Lovers At The Chameleon Club, Paris 1932' by Francine Prose
32. 'The Magician’s Land' by Lev Grossman
33. 'The Moor’s Account' by Laila Lalami
34. 'Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals' by Patricia Lockwood
35. 'My Struggle. Book 3: Boyhood' by Karl Ove Knausgaard. Translated by Don Bartlett.
36. 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' by Richard Flanagan
37. 'Nora Webster' by Colm Toibin
38. 'Panic In A Suitcase' by Yelena Akhtiorskaya
39. 'The Paying Guests' by Sarah Waters
40. 'The Poetry Of Derek Walcott 1948-2013' by ected by Glyn Maxwell
41. 'Redeployment' by Phil Klay
42. 'Remember Me Like This' by Bret Anthony Johnston
43. 'A Replacement Life' by Boris Fishman
44. 'Song Of The Shank' by Jeffery Renard Allen
45. '10:04' by Ben Lerner
46. 'Thirty Girls' by Susan Minot
47. 'Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay: Book 3, The Neapolitan Novels: “middle Time.' by Elena Ferrante. Translated by Ann Goldstein
48. 'The Wallcreeper' by Nell Zink
49. 'We Are Not Ourselves' by Matthew Thomas
50. 'When Mystical Creatures Attack' by Kathleen Founds
Category: NONFICTION
1. 'American Mirror: The Life And Art Of Norman Rockwell' by Deborah Solomon
2. 'Being Mortal: Medicine And What Matters In The End' by Atul Gawande
3. 'Building A Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How To Teach It To Everyone)' by Elizabeth Green
4. 'Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant' by tten and illustrated by Roz Chast
5. 'China’s Second Continent: How A Million Migrants Are Building A New Empire In africa' by Howard W. French
6. 'Cubed: A Secret History Of The Workpl...
And yes, I'm an automated tester. :)
If you do any sort of Web development, I would recommend writing tests using it. It's quite easy to pick up, and is available in different languages, and for different browsers.
It is well worth a read and I think HNers and fellow geeks will find it interesting
It's not that the NYT is bad, it's that predicting fads vs. classics at the time of release is a hard problem.