pg's "Ramen Profitable" essay contains an excellent Rice and Beans recipe: http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html#f1n

The "Siracusa County" reference refers to this Hypercritical episode: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/15

Completely off-topic, but those (who like me, liked Hypercritical very much, but aren't active on Twitter to learn these things there), Siracusa has a new show here: http://atp.fm

It's not as good as Hypercritical, but is better than nothing!

The Walmarts you mentioned:

Lush: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=walmart++Hilton+Head+Island,+...

Fully paved: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=walmart++Hilton+Head+Island,+...

Stack Exchange (including Stack Overflow, etc.): http://stackexchange.com/

One of Jeff Atwood's blog posts on the topic: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/10/the-gamification.ht...

The most recent Freakonomics on Marketplace segment focused on this study:

http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/08/23/there%E2%80%99s-cake-...

In the case of Stack Overflow/Stack Exchange, see Jeff Atwood's (slightly dated - IIRC job candidates are no longer charged) answer to "What is Stack Overflow's business model?":

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/79435/what-is-stack-...

And their Careers 2.0 employer page:

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/employer

Did you apply to YC, or were you invited to YC?

(I am curious how the process works for startups that already have significant traction before joining YC. Humble Bundle comes to mind.)

We had actually applied previously with a totally different idea, but then Light Table blew up and we resubmitted late.

I'd always been curious about what needs to happen for a late application to be accepted. Thanks for the transparency!

When we realized that multiple YC partners had already independently contributed to the Kickstarter project because they wanted to use Light Table themselves, it was not a hard decision.

I haven't seen Nathan talking about LT much. I'm assuming he's on the team from your previous YC attempt, am I correct? I was going to congratulate both of you, but I wasn't 100% sure.

Actually it's with another friend from high school :) He's dealing with trying to move out here right now, but you'll be seeing him a lot more - ibdthor is his username.

E-ink Kindles write a "Your battery is empty" message to the screen shortly before the battery becomes completely discharged.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickbilton/3636447946/

Xbox 360 (mostly for Netflix and YouTube)

Sencha - http://www.sencha.com/