Best of 2011

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2011. 351 posts.

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How Elite Firms Hire: The Inside Story

I highly recommend Lauren Rivera’s “Ivies, Extracurriculars, and Exclusion” (Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 2011). Not only is the piece careful, edifying, and interesting; it’s even emotionally affecting. Learning more about elite hiring actually replaced my apathy toward elite firms with sour grapes…