Welcome to issue 291 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers from April 6 to 12, 2014 Quotes of the Week * geekosaur: IO, IO, it's off to (>>=) I go * edwardk: waiting for sclv to start going around door to door passing out little copies of the homotopy type theory book, and asking people if they have yet had the geometric realization that the simplicial sets are homotopically equivalent to their Lord and Savior. * carter: i'll leave you in the gentle hands of the rest of the channel Top Reddit Stories * GHC 7.8.1 Released Domain: haskell.org, Score: 226, Comments: 106 On Reddit: [1] http://goo.gl/pz4nE Original: [2] http://goo.gl/SjQ3Qv * What To Expect When You're a Platform Library Maintainer Domain: permalink.gmane.org, Score: 56, Comments: 4 On Reddit: [3] http://goo.gl/bD6VVf Original: [4] http://goo.gl/WDvy53 * Why are we relying on numeric identifiers for dependencies when we have so much richer information available? Domain: self.haskell, Score: 44, Comments: 18 On Reddit: [5] http://goo.gl/Z3gBEq Original: [6] http://goo.gl/Z3gBEq * How To Read "Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design" Domain: atamo.com, Score: 41, Comments: 8 On Reddit: [7] http://goo.gl/j4mXVz Original: [8] http://goo.gl/q41KEF * BayHac '14 Sign-Up and List of Classes Domain: self.haskell, Score: 40, Comments: 11 On Reddit: [9] http://goo.gl/xterjO Original: [10] http://goo.gl/xterjO * Is GHC the defacto standard? Domain: self.haskell, Score: 40, Comments: 39 On Reddit: [11] http://goo.gl/eiVjGM Original: [12] http://goo.gl/eiVjGM * Battleships web game written in Haskell/Yesod Domain: www-pg.iai.uni-bonn.de, Score: 34, Comments: 15 On Reddit: [13] http://goo.gl/hl2NC2 Original: [14] http://goo.gl/Wt5jqi * Heartbleed aftermath: should Haskell web frameworks allow using a pure Haskell SSL library instead of OpenSSL? Domain: self.haskell, Score: 32, Comments: 54 On Reddit: [15] http://goo.gl/ycHKNZ Original: [16] http://goo.gl/ycHKNZ * BudHac 2014 Domain: haskell.org, Score: 28, Comments: 3 On Reddit: [17] http://goo.gl/iObjrD Original: [18] http://goo.gl/KRJL2x * Hacking Haskell in nightclubs - video feature on Algorave Domain: motherboard.vice.com, Score: 27, Comments: 2 On Reddit: [19] http://goo.gl/LLG6qR Original: [20] http://goo.gl/PlzTTa * A brief introduction to ConstraintKinds extension (Wolfgang Jeltsch) Domain: jeltsch.wordpress.com, Score: 27, Comments: 4 On Reddit: [21] http://goo.gl/RadGh7 Original: [22] http://goo.gl/CZIfU8 * Generating Mazes with Inductive Graphs Domain: jelv.is, Score: 26, Comments: 11 On Reddit: [23] http://goo.gl/fufmgp Original: [24] http://goo.gl/FxAeGV Top StackOverflow Questions * Why MonadPlus and not Monad + Monoid? votes: 18, answers: 2 Read on SO: [25] http://goo.gl/J02Msv * Can a pure function have free variables? votes: 11, answers: 3 Read on SO: [26] http://goo.gl/iyJsn9 * FRP - Event streams and Signals - what is lost in using just signals? votes: 10, answers: 4 Read on SO: [27] http://goo.gl/cXwKKf * Is there a way to make GHC provide the type class constraints of typed holes? votes: 9, answers: 0 Read on SO: [28] http://goo.gl/LYxEvm * Where are the magic rules for GHC assert? votes: 8, answers: 1 Read on SO: [29] http://goo.gl/JL8OLZ * Using Haskell ranges: Why would mapping a floating point function across a range cause it to return an extra element? votes: 7, answers: 1 Read on SO: [30] http://goo.gl/mtBCBa * Why Haskell's Data.List.deleteBy takes in input a comparison function (a -> a -> Bool) and a value instead of a predicate (a -> Bool)? votes: 6, answers: 1 Read on SO: [31] http://goo.gl/Wd9evy Until next time, [32]+Daniel Santa Cruz References 1. http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2014-April/024137.html 2. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/22lw1b/ghc_781_released/ 3. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.libraries/21681 4. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/22oott/what_to_expect_when_youre_a_... 5. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/22o4i1/why_are_we_relying_on_numeri... 6. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/22o4i1/why_are_we_relying_on_numeri... 7. http://www.atamo.com/blog/how-to-read-pearls-by-richard-bird-1/ 8. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/22kavg/how_to_read_pearls_of_functi... 9. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/22d1wu/bayhac_14_signup_and_list_of... 10. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/22d1wu/bayhac_14_signup_and_list_of... 11. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/22r569/is_ghc_the_defacto_standard/ 12. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/22r569/is_ghc_the_defacto_standard/ 13. http://www-pg.iai.uni-bonn.de/battleships 14. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/22f683/battleships_web_game_written... 15. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/22udou/heartbleed_aftermath_should_... 16. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/22udou/heartbleed_aftermath_should_... 17. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/BudapestHackathon2014 18. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/22euqt/budhac_2014/ 19. http://motherboard.vice.com/nl/read/algorave-coden-in-de-club 20. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/22ou9y/hacking_haskell_in_nightclub... 21. http://jeltsch.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/the-constraint-kind/ 22. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/22tfgl/a_brief_introduction_to_cons... 23. http://jelv.is/blog/Generating-Mazes-with-Inductive-Graphs 24. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/22ngz0/generating_mazes_with_induct... 25. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23023961/why-monadplus-and-not-monad-mono... 26. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22914878/can-a-pure-function-have-free-va... 27. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22989253/frp-event-streams-and-signals-wh... 28. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23028124/is-there-a-way-to-make-ghc-provi... 29. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22996814/where-are-the-magic-rules-for-gh... 30. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22901633/using-haskell-ranges-why-would-m... 31. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23000665/why-haskells-data-list-deleteby-... 32. https://plus.google.com/105107667630152149014/about