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An American University history professor who has accurately predicted three decades of US presidential races says Donald Trump will win the US election — Quartz

An American University history professor who has accurately predicted three decades of US presidential races says Donald Trump will win the US election — Quartz : A history professor who has accurately predicted three decades of US presidential races is calling a Trump win
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The Wall Street Journal: Grocers Feel Chill From Millennials

Grocers Feel Chill From Millennials The Wall Street Journal Grocers are struggling to lure e-commerce-loving millennials into their aisles amid what experts say is a permanent shift in shopping patterns among consumers. Read the full story Shared from Apple News Igor Masnjak Rue de l'Epondaz 17 1162 St-Prex +41 79 3283905
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The 8 biggest announcements from today's Microsoft event | The Verge

The 8 biggest announcements from today's Microsoft event | The Verge : allows the screen to tilt down at a sharp angle, allowing it to move from a more traditional computer design to a drafting board form factor for drawing and creative work. Preorders start today for $2,999, with "limited quantities" available for this holiday season.
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Modern technology is in danger of leaving the Premier League behind - football must fight back or viewers will keep turning off

Modern technology is in danger of leaving the Premier League behind - football must fight back or viewers will keep turning off : A crude but accurate summary is that we are hurtling to a point where people are too busy communicating with one another to concentrate on anything there is no obligation to concentrate on.
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Clotheshorse: Leading researcher says iPhone 7’s A10 Fusion chip ‘blows away the competition’

Leading researcher says iPhone 7's A10 Fusion chip 'blows away the competition' Clotheshorse Apple famously has hundreds if not thousands of in-house engineers who work on chip design and the group's work is becoming increasingly more impressive with each new iPhone release. Getting right down to it, the new A10 Fusion chip that powers Apple's iPhone 7 is an absolute beast. While new iPhone models are always faster than their predecessors, Apple really outdid itself with the A10, both in terms of overall performance and power efficiency; as we were reminded in a new showdown on Friday, Read the full story Shared from Apple News Sent from my iPhone
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BGR: Why is the Google Pixel graded on a curve when the iPhone isn’t?

Why is the Google Pixel graded on a curve when the iPhone isn't? BGR During the original iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs referenced a favorite quote of his from legendary computer scientist Alan Kay: "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware." This philosophy has formed the bedrock of Apple's business strategy for decades now, save for that brief dark period during the mid-90s when Apple sanctioned an ill-fated Mac clone initiative. Apple's devotion to both software and hardware is part of the reason why the iPhone often Read the full story Shared from Apple News Sent from my iPhone
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MySQL server memory usage troubleshooting tips

MySQL server memory usage troubleshooting tips : If you are using MyISAM then you need to check for�Key_buffer_size, while using InnoDB, you can check innodb_buffer_pool_size, �innodb_additional_memory_pool_size, innodb_log_buffer_size,��innodb_sort_buffer_size (used only for sorting data while creating index in innodb, introduced from 5.6). max_connections, query_cache_size and table_cache are also important variables to check.�
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Web-Scale Information Extraction in KnowItAll (Preliminary Results)

Web-Scale Information Extraction in KnowItAll (Preliminary Results)  Manually querying search engines in order to accumulate a large body of factual information is a tedious, error-prone process of piecemeal search. Search engines retrieve and rank potentially rel- evant documents for human perusal, but do not extract facts, assess confidence, or fuse information from multiple documents. This pa- per introduces K NOW I T A LL , a system that aims to automate the tedious process of extracting large collections of facts from the web in an autonomous, domain-independent, and scalable manner. The paper describes preliminary experiments in which an in- stance of K NOW I T A LL , running for four days on a single machine, was able to automatically extract 54,753 facts. K NOW I T A LL asso- ciates a probability with each fact enabling it to trade off precision and recall. The paper analyzes K NOW I T A LL ’s archit...
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A Fresh Look on Knowledge Bases: Distilling Named Events from News - Semantic Scholar

A Fresh Look on Knowledge Bases: Distilling Named Events from News - Semantic Scholar : Knowledge bases capture millions of entities such as people, companies or movies. However, their knowledge of named events like sports finals, political scandals, or natural disasters is fairly limited, as these are continuously emerging entities. This paper presents a method for extracting named events from news articles, reconciling them into canonicalized representation, and organizing them into fine-grained semantic classes to populate a knowledge base. Our method captures similarity measures among news articles in a multi-view attributed graph, considering textual contents, entity occurrences, and temporal ordering. For distilling canonicalized events from this raw data, we present a novel graph coarsening algorithm based on the information-theoretic principle of minimum description length. The quality of our method is experimentally demonstrated by extracting, organizing, and evaluating 25,000...
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Open Information Extraction from the Web

Open Information Extraction from the Web Michele Banko, Michael J Cafarella, Stephen Soderland, Matt Broadhead and Oren Etzioni Turing Center Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington Traditionally, Information Extraction (IE) has fo- cused on satisfying precise, narrow, pre-specified requests from small homogeneous corpora (e.g., extract the location and time of seminars from a set of announcements). Shifting to a new domain requires the user to name the target relations and to manually create new extraction rules or hand-tag new training examples. This manual labor scales linearly with the number of target relations. This paper introduces Open IE (OIE), a new ex- traction paradigm where the system makes a single data-driven pass over its corpus and extracts a large set of relational tuples without requiring any human input. The paper also introduces T EXT R UNNER , a ...
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Why Those “Buy Now” Buttons Are So Misleading

Why Those “Buy Now” Buttons Are So Misleading : When it comes to physical products, we have a pretty good idea of what ownership means. If you own a vinyl record, you can lend it to a friend. You can sell your old VHS tape collection on eBay. You can donate your book collection to the local library or leave it to someone in your will. Or you could rent a storage unit and hoard to your heart’s content. No one will stop you. Through a lifetime of experience with physical goods, most of us understand intuitively what it means to buy things and to own them. Words like own and buy prime consumers to rely on these familiar concepts of personal property to understand their rights in digital purchases. But those engrained consumer expectations are a far less reliable guide for digital goods. The Department of Commerce’s Internet Policy Task Force recently took note of the Buy Now button’s potential for consumer deception. Copyright holders respond to this critique by insisting that consumers...
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Hell is working at Wells Fargo. | New Republic

Hell is working at Wells Fargo. | New Republic : So you haven’t resigned. You haven’t returned a single nickel of your personal earnings. You haven’t fired a single senior executive. Instead, evidently, your definition of accountable is to push the blame to your low-level employees who don’t have the money for a fancy PR firm to defend themselves. It’s gutless leadership.
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Feed - Quora

Feed - Quora : He’s a much more imposing presence that TV appearances suggest - I was surprised at just how tall and portly (yes, I mean he looked quite fat) he was. He’s a seriously big guy, and I must admit I was a pretty intimidated by him. He has a real nervous energy about him - He has a fast walking pace, wanted to get things done quickly, and you could see he was always thinking ahead, not wanting even idle time to go to waste (eg. while being introduced to go on stage, he was simultaneously listening to the speaker while answering emails on his phone) He comes across quite cold - not unpleasant, just direct, polite and with no airs or pretences. While speaking with a small team of us, he answered our questions sincerely, but when someone asked what he obviously considered a dumb question, he didn’t hide the fact that he thought so.
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Darwin Awards. Chlorinating The Gene Pool.

Darwin Awards. Chlorinating The Gene Pool. : MEN ARE MORE IDIOTIC THAN WOMEN. Scientific research on sex trends in the Darwin Awards shows striking asymmetry between the number of male and female winners. Thanks Ben Lendrem for your thorough analysis of [Idiots Trending on Darwin Awards.]
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Improbable Research

Improbable Research : CEREMONY: The 26th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will happen on Thursday, September 22, 2016, at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
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mcdonalds food assembly chart - Google Search

https://www.google.ch/search?q=mcdonalds+food+assembly&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=isnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwies8zc0NPPAhXLhSwKHQOhBG0Q_AUIBygB&biw=414&bih=628#hl=en-us&tbm=isch&q=mcdonalds+food+assembly+chart&imgrc=1PyOtVpQx8HG2M%3A Sent from my iPhone
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Torrent Site Founder, Moderator and Users Receive Prison Sentences - TorrentFreak

Torrent Site Founder, Moderator and Users Receive Prison Sentences - TorrentFreak : The 28-year-old former operator of a French-based torrent site has been ordered to serve a year in jail and pay a five million euro fine. A moderator received a four-month suspended sentence. Somewhat unusually, four regular users of the site were tracked down by their IP addresses. They too received custodial sentences.
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Pirate Kodi Add-Ons Gain Massive Popularity - TorrentFreak

Pirate Kodi Add-Ons Gain Massive Popularity - TorrentFreak : Streaming piracy is on the rise with the popular media center Kodi at the center of attention. While Kodi itself is a neutral platform, millions of people use third-party add-ons to turn it into the ultimate pirate machine. In less than a year, the leading add-on repository has seen the number of unique users double, which may be just the beginning.
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Trump Tax Records Obtained by The Times Reveal He Could Have Avoided Paying Taxes for Nearly Two Decades - The New York Times

Trump Tax Records Obtained by The Times Reveal He Could Have Avoided Paying Taxes for Nearly Two Decades - The New York Times : Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years, records obtained by The New York Times show. The 1995 tax records, never before disclosed, reveal the extraordinary tax benefits that Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, derived from the financial wreckage he left behind in the early 1990s through mismanagement of three Atlantic City casinos, his ill-fated foray into the airline business and his ill-timed purchase of the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. Tax experts hired by The Times to analyze Mr. Trump’s 1995 records said that tax rules especially advantageous to wealthy filers would have allowed Mr. Trump to use his $916 million loss to cancel out an equivalent amount of taxable income over an 18-ye...
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The Case Against ETFs - TheStreet

The Case Against ETFs - TheStreet : At the Bogleheads meeting this week outside Philadelphia, the attendees and speakers agreed that low-cost index funds are great. But exchange-traded funds, which are bundled mutual funds that trade like stocks and have quite low expense ratios, didn't get the same enthusiasm.
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Jack Bogle Sounds Off: 10 Provocative New Pronouncements from the Legendary Founder of Vanguard

Jack Bogle Sounds Off: 10 Provocative New Pronouncements from the Legendary Founder of Vanguard : “I’ve seen this go from an industry that sells what it makes to an industry that makes what will sell,” he said. He dated that switch to the late 1950s, when a court decision allowed fund management firms to become public companies beholden to their corporate shareholders as well as to the shareholders of the funds. In launching Vanguard, which is unusual in being a mutual company owned by the Vanguard funds and fund investors, he said, “I did my best to disrupt an industry that was sadly in need of disruption.”
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Danny Meyer Just Single-Handedly Made the Apple Watch Relevant to the Hospitality Industry - Eater

Danny Meyer Just Single-Handedly Made the Apple Watch Relevant to the Hospitality Industry - Eater : When Meyer’s 30-year-old Union Square Cafe reopens in Manhattan next month, every floor manager and sommelier will be wearing an Apple Watch. And when a VIP walks through the front door, someone orders a bottle of wine, a new table is seated, a guest waits too long to order her or his drink, or a menu item runs out, every manager will get an alert via the tiny computer attached to their wrist.
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Hillary Clinton laid a surprisingly intricate trap for Donald Trump, and he blundered into it - Vox

Hillary Clinton laid a surprisingly intricate trap for Donald Trump, and he blundered into it - Vox : It’s the perfect Trump anecdote. It shows Trump being misogynistic and racist. But it also shows him being disparaging to low-wage workers. The story also has a perfect punchline about becoming a citizen and registering to vote — a key issue for Clinton, whose demographic base includes a relatively large share of “unlikely voters,” especially Hispanics, who have traditionally turned out at a lower level.
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