Can we please stop having posts on this topic? Its old news and seems to come up very often. I don't even know why people keep blogging about it... surely they realize that this neat thing they learned in math class or on wikipedia or on someone else's blog is not new?
Is it me or have posts related to the suitor problem been relatively popular on HN in the last ~3 months or so? The result isn't especially new, nor does it bear any obvious relation to programming or entrepeneurship, so it's just a bit of clever math.
While it's true- this has been covered in the past, programming has a fair bit to do with clever math.
Might be interesting to treat this as a game theory problem where suitors have their own agendas too, and wouldn't like to be in the initial group that gets unconditionally discarded.