Best of 2016 poll

Answers:

Rookie of the year: ais523, codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/100785/8478
SGITW: Anders Kaseorg, codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/79132/8478
Kansas City Shuffle: Dennis, codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/105014/8478
Best showcase of a new language: DJMcMayhem, codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/103051/8478
Pro tip: Martin Ender, codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/100629/8478
It's not a bug, it's a feature: udioica, codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/95900/8478
Above-and-beyond: primo, codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/68494/8478

@Zgarb @DJMcMayhem The two of you have offered to write challenges for the challenge winners. Do you want to sort out between the two of you who writes which one?

@Dennis @LuisMendo @DJMcMayhem @nimi @AdmBorkBork @Mego @NathanMerrill You are the highest-rep users who have offered to give out bounties for the Best Of. Could you all confirm whether you're still up for spending 500 rep on one of the prizes? Once I get everyone's responses I'll figure out who gives rep to whom.

@MartinEnder Sure, I'm still up for it.

Can we request the category we'd like to reward? I'd love to do Best explanation or "it's not a bug"

Sure. Don't know if I'll be able to accommodate everyone, but I'll take it into account.

OK, thanks! There's a couple badges for bountying your own question that I haven't gotten yet, haha

@zgarb (I'm not sure if this ping will work) I'm not super picky. I think it would be a little easier for me to come up with a challenge for ais532, but if you have any strong preferences feel free to pick.

(is pinging a user who hasn't entered the room a mod ability?)

yes

@MartinEnder Sure. If possible, I'd like to bounty primo's Hello World answer.

damnit

that was my preference as well

No fair, you already bountied that answer last year. :P

@MartinEnder yep

@MartinEnder Sure!

any preferences?

no

are we going to stagger the bounties?

yes

@MartinEnder Like Mego, I'd prefer my category but I don't mind at all if it's another

ok. If you can ping me when its time to bounty, and with what question, I will\

are any of the bounty givers getting a bounty?

me too

We should propose a code golf challenge to find all possible solutions without self-bountying :-P

@LuisMendo that's actually a great idea (if not a dupe)

so, you basically have a digraph of in nodes, and out nodes

and some of the nodes are both in and out

@DJMcMayhem Go ahead with it if you like :-)

Haha, OK sure.

and you have to ensure all the nodes are connected, and no node is connected to itself

To make it more complicated, some users have earned multiple bounties, and some users may offer multiple bounties

surely there's already work done on this?

like, this seems like a graph theory 101 problem

I'm not even sure where I'd start writing a non-golfed solution to this. Graph theory is confusing

@MartinEnder: Yes, I'm still offering a bounty.

If possible, I'd like to award my bounty to one of the two "challenge" categories.

@Mego there are 23520 valid bounty combos given our real world data

And around 17k invalid combos

I mean, that depends on what is included in the 17k invalid combos

does it allow for people not giving anything?

aka, is the combo of "nobody gives any bounties" considered in the invalid count?

Interesting. If I set Martin to receive 7 of the 8 bounties while still awarding one, there are still 5040 valid combinations

that's 7!

aka, the order of the bounties Martin received matters

Ah, makes sense.

I'll post it in here so you guys can play around with it if you want.

It's 15 lines long. Should I post it directly or use gist?

The penguin has spoken

@Mego Copying random snippets from SO