Hacker News on 3 October 2009

• A terrible tragedy: Dan Haubert of Ticketstumbler (fallentimes) has passed away
• Apple iOffer (Offer letter done the Apple way)
• Boy Lifts Book; Librarian Changes Boy's Life
• Ask HN: How do you pick colors
• Remote Pair Programming with Screen and Vim
• Leo LaPorte explains podcast economics: $350,000 expenses, $1.5 million rev
• Neural Networks - A Systematic Introduction
• Why the 80-20 Rule is Wrong
• Perl 5.11 released
• 20+ hour outage due to EC2/EBS on BitBucket