Welcome back, my rookie hackers! Many newbie hackers focus upon the technical aspects of hacking and fail to give enough attention to social engineering. In fact, I would say that technical hacks should ONLY be attempted if social engineering attacks fail.

We’ll use uiTrigger to trigger a UI rebuild. This trigger is the heart of the app. We use it to control UI rebuilds for the records. fileTrigger is used to trigger an update of dbdata(), i.e. to (re)read the data from the database.

This is the website for Tidy Text Mining with R! Visit the GitHub repository for this site. This work by Julia Silge and David Robinson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

A moat is a reference to a company’s ability to protect its long-term earnings, market share and competitive advantages from its competitors. I was very interested in evaluating the strength of a company’s moat on my own.

These draft chapters weave together a collection of tools for the data scientist—tools that are all part of the R Statistical Software Suite. Each chapter is a  collection of one (or more) pages that cover particular aspects of the topic.

So far, equities have reacted well to falling bond prices, but this may not last for much longer according to Peter Oppenheimer, Chief Global Equity Strategist at Goldman Sachs. In this month’s issue of Goldman Sachs’ Top of Mind monthly magazine, Mr.

Len Kiefer, Deputy Chief Economist at Freddie Mac, recently posted an analysis of global housing price trends based on the international house price database (from the Dallas Fed).

ETF Trends (hat tip Josh) showed the following “quilt” of large cap factor calendar year returns in the post Low Volatility is Not a Buy and Hold Strategy. Momentum tends to work better over shorter periods of look back periods (6, 9, 12 months).

The IRR clock starts ticking from day one, and the first months of a deal are critical to establishing its pace and trajectory and the relationship between the PE firm and portfolio company.

Piña Colada, a powerful and extensible wireless pineapple, capable of performing a wide range of remote offensive attacks on a network. It can currently be controlled only via a command line interface, but a Command and Control remote server functionality is coming soon.