Hacker News on 28 August 2009

• Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense
• Simpson's paradox: why mistrust seemingly simple statistics
• America's unjust sex laws
• Buy somebody lunch
• A design pattern is an artifact of a missing feature in your chosen language
• Scratch.py -- hyper-fast mini-webapp production, in Python
• Mark Bao's startup Atomplan acquired. Congratulations!
• Does money buy happiness? Yes, if it's used to buy memories
• Wireless Electricity Demo
• Clamato: A Smalltalk Dialect for Javascript