folding

HN should treat the folding as a signal similar to a down vote on that particular sub-thread.

5' folding table next to the foldout couch two very kind University of Houston students let me sleep on all year.

They're talking about folding bikes and multimodal commuting.

It's just like any other mediocre programming job, but your office is a folding table under a decommissioned fume hood.

Traditional map folding allows you to reference a portion of the map without unfolding it entirely.

It was basically a side-by-side email client by look, yet acted like it was folding proteins or mining bitcoin in some worker thread.

I'm sure it'd be harder to get funding for something as unsexy as, say, protein folding than it would be for creating a social network for cats and that really is sad.

We can gamify protein folding because this is a well-understood, well-characterized problem.

Minor nitpick, given the author's stress of not comparing apples to oranges I think the motivating anecdote on protein folding struck a dissonant cord.

I had a far more interesting and engaging introduction to algorithms on the first day of my class using paper airplane folding instructions as an example of how literally computers interpreted your instructions.