Welcome to issue 241 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of August 12 to 18, 2012. Quotes of the Week * monochrom: seq is a suggestion. pseq is an order. * johnw: Haskell is like using a finely crafted blade to whittle yourself a canoe, as your friends pass by on their cruise liner and wonder what you're up to Top Reddit Stories * Yesod gets financial backing. Domain: yesodweb.com, Score: 76, Comments: 23 On Reddit: [1] http://goo.gl/isVxZ Original: [2] http://goo.gl/aTtqC * The category design pattern Domain: haskellforall.com, Score: 65, Comments: 32 On Reddit: [3] http://goo.gl/Owrgh Original: [4] http://goo.gl/iDEen * I remember the time before monads | free variable Domain: free-variable.org, Score: 64, Comments: 5 On Reddit: [5] http://goo.gl/41Utn Original: [6] http://goo.gl/febU9 * GHC 7.6.1 Release Candidate 1 Domain: haskell.org, Score: 55, Comments: 33 On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/weAei Original: [8] http://goo.gl/QHtd7 * PVP: upper bounds are not our friends Domain: haskell.org, Score: 49, Comments: 94 On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/8ihwE Original: [10] http://goo.gl/0YbGl * MongoDB on the hunt for Haskell Evangelist Domain: haskellers.com, Score: 36, Comments: 17 On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/X1WLL Original: [12] http://goo.gl/TYDdE * Raspberry Pi in a Haskell Cloud Domain: alenribic.com, Score: 33, Comments: 6 On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/esAHP Original: [14] http://goo.gl/me7ob * Practical Foundations for Programming Languages (first impressions) Domain: blog.ezyang.com, Score: 30, Comments: On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/FjrY1 Original: [16] http://goo.gl/8AzpC * Scoutess GSoC project finished! Domain: self.haskell, Score: 28, Comments: 4 On Reddit: [17] http://goo.gl/hRzvC Original: [18] http://goo.gl/hRzvC Top StackOverflow Questions * Subtype polymorphism in Haskell votes: 17, answers: 2 Read on SO: [19] http://goo.gl/xERPq * Is it possible to use a bracketing syntactic sugar for an applicative functor? votes: 14, answers: 2 Read on SO: [20] http://goo.gl/3EH63 * Useful operations on free arrows votes: 11, answers: 0 Read on SO: [21] http://goo.gl/BQ6ry * Against cold boot attacks: how to restrain sensitive information in Haskell votes: 9, answers: 1 Read on SO: [22] http://goo.gl/kUOn2 * GHCi and compiled code seem to behave differently votes: 7, answers: 1 Read on SO: [23] http://goo.gl/q8yJi * Implementing Iota in Haskell votes: 7, answers: 1 Read on SO: [24] http://goo.gl/KonKf * Understanding STG votes: 6, answers: 1 Read on SO: [25] http://goo.gl/uQmKn * Quickcheck for non-boolean tests votes: 6, answers: 0 Read on SO: [26] http://goo.gl/on6jt * Screen capture in Haskell? votes: 6, answers: 3 Read on SO: [27] http://goo.gl/7xIX5 * typeclass challenge: having both variadic arguments and results votes: 6, answers: 2 Read on SO: [28] http://goo.gl/8aA6Z Until next time, Daniel Santa Cruz References 1. http://www.yesodweb.com/blog/2012/08/joining-forces-advance-haskell 2. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/y62j3/yesod_gets_financial_backing/ 3. http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/08/the-category-design-pattern.html 4. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/yfhem/the_category_design_pattern/ 5. http://www.free-variable.org/2012/08/i-remember-the-time-before-monads/ 6. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/y87rh/i_remember_the_time_before_mo... 7. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2012-August/022671.ht... 8. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/y3vzd/ghc_761_release_candidate_1/ 9. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2012-August/102885.html 10. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ydkcq/pvp_upper_bounds_are_not_our_... 11. http://www.haskellers.com/jobs/18 12. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/yc1no/mongodb_on_the_hunt_for_haske... 13. http://alenribic.com/writings/post/raspberry-pi-in-a-haskell-cloud 14. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/ydvn2/raspberry_pi_in_a_haskell_clo... 15. http://blog.ezyang.com/2012/08/practical-foundations-for-programming-languag... 16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/yda6c/practical_foundations_for_pro... 17. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/y9v83/scoutess_gsoc_project_finishe... 18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/y9v83/scoutess_gsoc_project_finishe... 19. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12002979/subtype-polymorphism-in-haskell 20. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12014524/is-it-possible-to-use-a-bracketi... 21. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12001350/useful-operations-on-free-arrows 22. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11932246/against-cold-boot-attacks-how-to... 23. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11926398/ghci-and-compiled-code-seem-to-b... 24. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11960809/implementing-iota-in-haskell 25. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11921683/understanding-stg 26. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11942554/quickcheck-for-non-boolean-tests 27. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11963561/screen-capture-in-haskell 28. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12014420/typeclass-challenge-having-both-...