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App de ponto eletrônico Oitchau cria solução para combater pontos fraudulentos
Plataforma móvel de controle de ponto Oitchau cria sistema seguro e prático para combater fraude de ponto.

Mentir informações ao bater ponto ou bater ponto no lugar de outra pessoa é considerado fraude, e ter funcionários praticando essas ações pode causar enorme prejuízo para sua empresa, fazendo perder muito dinheiro até que o problema seja detectado e as medidas necessárias tomadas.

“Pedir para o amigo bater ponto no seu lugar, falsificar planilhas e assinaturas ou bater ponto longe do trabalho são práticas que acontecem com frequência em todos os tipos de empresa”, diz Lonny Szneiberg, Co-Fundador e CEO do Oitchau.

Hoje empresas podem controlar o ponto dos funcionários com muito mais praticidade e, principalmente, segurança usando o Oitchau.com.br. A solução móvel protege contra fraude validando automaticamente três informações essenciais: Identidade (pelo aparelho), Hora e Localização (por GPS, WiFi ou Bluetooth).

Cada funcionário bate ponto usando o próprio celular e ações fraudulentas como mentir a identidade, alterar o relógio ou tentar bater ponto longe do trabalho são detectadas na hora!

O diferencial do Oitchau é oferecer um sistema de ponto eletrônico que pode ser acompanhado em tempo real. Quando um funcionário bate ponto sem validar qualquer uma das informações, o gestor ou supervisor é notificado imediatamente.

A novidade tem apresentado uma redução de quase 95% dos casos de fraude de ponto em pequenas e grandes empresas que já são clientes do Oitchau.

Parece que os pontos fraudulentos estão mesmo com os dias contados!

Sobre a Oitchau

Oitchau é a plataforma de Controle de Ponto que economiza mais! Com sede em São Paulo, foi criado em 2017 com a missão de ajudar, de pequenas e grandes empresas, na redução de custos com registros de ponto e processamento de folha de pagamento.

https://www.oitchau.com.br
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> The role of self-learning algorithms would seem to be very significant in this context, since – like capitalism – they also hinge upon movement

> If the systematization of the possible is somehow reconfigured by self-learning algorithms, are the capacities of indefinite potential then also reconfigured when it comes to evading this very systematization ...

> An associationism that can never be known, a life of associating with other things and people that is not amenable to and not incorporable by calculation – is this now changing through AI?

> However, the distance between the actual output signals of their algorithms and the target output represents what I call a space of play. Indeed, the algorithm designers described ‘playing with’ or ‘tuning’ the algorithm so that the output converges on the target. Here I think that deep machine learning is not circumscribed at all by a limited spectrum of possibility ...

I don't think all humanities are gibberish, but this is. I'm sure a Philosopher would find my opinions on Nietzsche to be similarly half-baked.
I guess looking at movies and books, I could see where you'd get this idea, but it really isn't accurate.

There are different types of feeling good, and the purely chemical good isn't particularly rewarding. There are the moments in life where you are happy because you are living the life you want to live, and those are way better than just feeling good from drugs. Sometimes life goals and drugs come together, and that gets really interesting. It's reasonably common for people to do MDMA and have a glimpse of their life without anxiety and trauma, or LSD and looking at their own existence objectively.

For me, the best moments in my life are around building connections with people.
:').... look at poland politics today. save the country first, then the architecture! beautyful country with great rich culture and people, being destroyed now and sold out to the EU for personal interests of these politicians. if that goes through... forger about saving anything there....
And if it's a plasma...it's gonna melt whatever you're trying to leak-check :)
How much compression do you get out of video files? My understanding is they are already pretty compressed so you don't see a great improvement. I have many terabytes of files on some drives, even 5% of savings could go a long way.
What should I do with my broken kettle?
I completely agree. I've been using MacBook Air mid 2013 for the last 5 years and it's a great laptop. Now I'm considering buying a new one, and Airs just don't make sense for me anymore.

In Singapore the difference in price between cheapest Air and cheapest Pro is less than SG$100 (US$70). The only advantage of Air is longer battery life, but that's it.

I think at this point the Air series should be merged with MacBooks. Make it small (12"), give it one more USB-C port, upgrade processor, add TouchID and it's good to go.
App de ponto eletrônico Oitchau cria solução para combater pontos fraudulentos
The US says China is hacking its way to better planes
In the age of e-readers, I wish they would put more effort into making unique hardbacks. It seems every new hardback is just made to be oversized with a very generic-looking sleeve.
Typing from my dell xps 15... what "isn't great" about it?
I’ve been running that setup as my main workstation for over 3 years. Use an nVidia gpu and a dedicated usb card for IO.
You also need a second machine to do esx management, I have a laptop. And a second video card to see the esx console (handy when it isn’t working).
Finally don’t use multiple drives for esx datastores, there is no way to remove them later (to upgrade or replace failed drives). I learnt the hard way, transferring 6TB of vms over usb 2 is not fun.
Down sides to e-books:

- Reading them sucks except on e-ink screens, for a variety of reasons, including that screens shut off while you're using them, the glow and eye strain, battery life of such devices, distractions, and more.

- E-ink devices aren't great at: footnotes, keeping a finger in an index/end-notes page (generally, bouncing between multiple reference pages), and so on. They're fine for contemporary fiction and that's about it. [edit] big example: only one page visible at a time. Two-page layouts can be practically necessary for many (mostly non-fiction) books, but even in fiction having more text available to look back at can be really nice.

- Physical books are a memory aid—I often forget the title and author of e-books I'm reading because I don't see the cover or spine or top-of-page notations, and spatial memory kicks in for certain things as far as depth-into-book and location-on-page. An edge case, but sometimes I have to locate a book by size and spine color.

- Personal effort that's probably not common, but most of my books are arranged chronologically by (often approximate) date of author's first major work, making the shelves themselves a learning tool. I've not seen a digital equivalent to a book shelf that does anything like this effectively, and certainly it wouldn't be there all the time in the room for passive absorption when you're not actively engaged in browsing.

- They're also often cheaper than ebooks if you're not just pirating those. Used books are pretty cheap, and you can recover (usually only a little, admittedly) money from them if you get rid of them. Used fiction paperbacks can be so cheap they're effectively disposable.

In ebooks favor, they're incredibly space and weight saving and they're searchable, and those are definitely big points in their favor. But if I'm going to go to the trouble of reading anything other than contemporary fiction or very skimmable/low-value non fiction (think: popular business books) I'm going to want a real book, so I can take advantage of the features of real books, not for smell or feel or whatever.

[another edit] oh and you can leave several currently-reading books around the house without having to buy several $100-200 devices (wait why isn't my book on this one anymore? Oh one of the kids picked it up and changed it to Wind in the Willows, hold on, gotta go to the menu...) or go grab your e-reader from the other room or whatever. Ebooks may win for overall convenience, but they don't take it without giving up a couple goals to physical books.
It's a trend-setting attitude. Relearning skill builds is easy and relatively fun because you already have the skill points/levels and all you do is just allocate them again( provided the new ones are balanced and fun). What blizzard is doing is basically reseting the entire progress of every player in the game every expansion. You might spend 2 years building up your end-game gear and then an expansion comes and the common drops from one level higher are more powerful than the highest drops from the previous one.
Show HN: Rubix - Python Library to do DevOps in Jupyter Notebook
Can you point to a source with such MRI scans? I would like to see.
There's evolutionary reasons people prefer less healthy food. Obesity and weed smoking are not equals. You have to go out of your way to get weed. You can become obese with passive inaction.
Its ok. You can start saving now, its not too late. Don't worry.
When you install a new unit you use additional helium that boils off just to bring it to superconducting temperature.
I'm assuming this is sarcasm but I can kind of see the case that Facebook is making here.

For example, if a drunk person behind the wheel of a Ford does a tremendous amount of damaage, no one goes after Ford for not preventing it.

Facebook is a tool. Is it Facebook's responsibility to make sure that everyone uses it ethically? I can understand putting in measures to make sure that everyone is using it legally and have a mechanism to help authorities stop bad actors but deciding what a "bad actor" is shouldn't Facebook's responsibility.
Have spent a small amount of time there...Kyrgyzstan is truly beautiful and the people are great!

No mention of the political risks though?

https://www.economist.com/asia/2017/10/21/kyrgyzstan-holds-a...

Even factoring that risk in, getting great talent so cheap seems like a win.
Wouldn't that be the argument of legitimate medical use though? You're mitigating the pain of people who literally have less than a year to live.
I wouldn't be able to stop myself from saying "way-als" in a mocking accent. Just like how I can't stop myself saying "moo-ney" when I hear it from a Dubliner.
Apple tried to buy Leap Motion twice
Red Hat doesn't "get" $34B, its shareholder do.
It's not a matter of population. Tel Aviv is probably the most interesting and happening city in that whole great region, while Cardiff isn't.
Portugal's decriminalization is not the same as legalization; it could itself be viewed as "doing better". I personally am for legalization, but in terms of reducing consumption, it might be more effective.
Sadly there's still some prohibition on giving the patient enough to comfortably OD and voluntarily end their suffering in a lot of places. I've heard nurses say that they're instructed to try and keep the patient optimistic, even when all that life means to them anymore is continued suffering. Gotta squeeze every last dollar out of them or something I suppose.
Hey, sorry I saw that and typed a quick response just as I woke up. I'm not usually at a computer so early in the day. I'll address these now that I'm in front of a machine. :)

> Did they keep writing more Clojure?

Yes but it has never been the primary language at Netflix.

> How much more did they rewrite from Java to Clojure?

Very little, if any was rewritten from Java.

> If so, how much of their code is now in Clojure compared to Java?

A very small amount given that it isn't the primary language and Clojure code bases tend to be much smaller than Java.

> Do they use Clojure rather than Java for new code?

This is a personal choice each engineer makes when they write new code. Those who like Clojure might reach for it more often. Clojure is also easy to use within the environment at Netflix since everything was JVM based.

> What other languages do they use? Python? Erlang? Rust?

NodeJS and Javascript, Python, Ruby all have a seat at the table but the majority of back-end code at Netflix is on the JVM, the majority of that is Java.

> Among the things that seemed great with Clojure in 2013, did they find that some of these were not so great after all once the codebase grew? Any other problems?

I've always found larger Clojure code bases to be a bit unwieldy. Fortunately you can usually continue to abstract and keep the size small. If you choose your abstractions carefully you can get a lot of mileage out of this.

I've found the lack of static typing to be a bit of a pain at times especially when refactoring. My safety net for this in the project mentioned in the GP post is to have comprehensive unit tests. If I were to initiate this project today I'd likely explore using Spec to make type assertions.
This is illegal under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act as anything except a temporary, remedial, and aspirational policy (McDonald v. Santa Fe Trail, Steelworkers v. Weber, Johnson v. Santa Clara).

We can probably expect the current SCOTUS to either introduce stricter tests or strengthen the current test. My own prediction is that, absent any sort of legislative action [1], SCOTUS will strengthen of the second prong of the Weber test ("not unnecessarily trammeled") to include the entire recruitment/hiring process. And probably also reaffirmations/broadening in scope of the "no quotas" rule.

From what I can tell, this is also a fairly recent phenomenon in tech. This guy's career goes back to 2000, back when tech jobs didn't have the appeal (or paychecks) they do today and diversity wasn't front-and-center. So even if you and GP are 100% correct about today [2], that doesn't really say anything about the world 20 years ago.

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[1] which appears to be unlikely at the moment, but I'd be more confident saying so if Nov 7 fell within the edit window for this comment ;-)

[2] I'm intentionally stating this is a hypothetical and reserving my own opinion on it, because I think arguments are especially constructive when we can identify ways in which conclusions might fail even when accepting premises from which the conclusion is claimed to follow. Otherwise, especially on issues like this one, we end up with an intractable duel between contradictory axioms and no one benefits/learns anything.
What you have mentioned amounts to correlation only. If it's also causation, you're the one that should provide the proof.
100%. London has become a tragedy of the commons.
Can confirm that the T2 MPB on my desk right now can't see a clonezilla USB stick (booting with option key) even with "No Security" and "Allow booting from external media" checked

The stick boots fine on a non-T2 Mac Mini
It's funny because all it has ever done for me is the opposite. I'm a pretty energetic dude and weed has always made me want to get out and move, go and play a pickup game or something. It has also brought a different type of focus on any activity I'm doing.

I see a lot of pretty silly takes in this thread that weed automatically makes you happy with boredom somehow, and that apparently leads to a bunch of people sitting on couches zoned out who would have otherwise, with that "bored" time, gone out and learned juggling. Sounds like some grandma's opinion from the 40s.
We have used Clojure in our data processing and API code for five years now at Studio71, and it's been a huge success for us. We have much smaller dev teams than our competitors so Clojure has helped us keep pace with a smaller code base and fast data processing, but it has been a challenge to hire new developers when we need one, but with patience it has always worked out.
> When I read this

I'm impressed you were able to parse it at all. I had to translate it to normal human speech before I was able to even take a guess at what they were playing at.
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Maroon 5 is apparently a riff on yellow5[0][1].

[0] https://www.yellow5.com/pokey/

[1] ref: the author is a friend of mine. I don’t know how they determined the relationship, but I’ve no reason to doubt the author.

Update: corroborated(?) https://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Li-Ou/Maroon-5.html
You totally make a valid point. But I would literally remove all those safety rails. People just have to keep a safe distance from the edge of the cliff.
> psychosis

Have been dealing with that result on a young relative. Whether it's correlation or causation, it seems bizarre to me that modern-day 500mg 72% THC vape could be considered a safe thing by default - particularly when so many studies are 10 or 15 years old.

I could imagine some adults regulating themselves. But teens and young adults?
Twitter does re-compress everything. This method survives re-compression.
Point me to evidence of broad censorship please because the discussion is about Trump.

And if this is an issue that concerns you more broadly I’m not sure how you could possibly miss the dozens or hundreds of news stories about online platforms trying to combat extremism.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/several-tech-giants-join-forces...
I think MBP 2018 and new MBA have different keyboards. MBP just added improvements but MBA one is called 3rd gen keyboards.
I wouldn't be using any of the advanced features. I just want a filesystem. The automatic compression stuff seemed attractive, but if there's anything else I have to do besides just format a drive differently it's not worth it for me. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Venting 120l of liquid helium (or about 84,000l of gaseous helium) really isn't that much of a health concern

I've seen multiple vents of ~1500l of liquid helium (~1,050,000l of gaseous) in a single day from a couple bad MRI units when I worked at a company that makes them

Only "dangerous" place to be was in the fragmentation path of the burst disc (which was enclosed in the top of the unit (at the time)), or directly in the path of the nearly-liquid (ie extremely cold) helium as it vented

It dissipates extremely rapidly
How are you throwing Indian cultural entities? It doesn't seem to make sense, though I have not read your literature.
>Just put together some stuff yourself, from scrap wood and stuff most people have lying around anyway

The intersection of HNers and DIYers is much smaller than you think. Also when you're paying $2500 for a 500ft^2 apartment in SF you don't tend to hang on to things like scrap wood.
This runs Jupyter in the background.

So it retains some of the issues with it - e.g. notebook diff,etc.
fair enough, I don't need any of the fancy features.
Is that still true?

I read some time ago that the LED used to be hardware controlled, but switched to being software controlled at some point.
That's low compared to FAANG, but it's much higher, even adjusting for COL, than most of the "perfectly normal" lower salaries in these comments. That's not good: those lower salaries should be considered abnormally low; mine should be considered on the high end of average

These are the "average" salaries across the industry in different metro areas:

https://www.matrixres.com/salary-surveys

As far as $200K being high adjusted for COLA, in the burbs where I live. $330K gets you a house - brand new build in a top rated school system with five bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 3000 square feet with a yard, two car garage, and a separate nice size office. What does that get you in SV?

Anyone making at least $110K can buy that house with an FHA loan with 3.5% down.

What a company is going to pay is based on the supply and demand.
Youtubers can’t seem to make it through basic social interactions without causing a social firestorm half of the time, I’m going to take a hard pass on them teaching surgical skills.
"Any clues why such an environment doesn't make Android phones behave in such a way?"

A bit of googling seems to indicate most smart phones have a crystal oscillator. But, Android would have the advantage of manufacturer diversity...so lots of different types of crystal oscillators, perhaps some that are sealed better than the iphone ones, or quartz vs silicon, etc.

This does sort of illustrate an issue with the iphone tech monoculture. Lots of devices with similar components, and similar versions of software. Find something that adversely affects them, and you can disrupt a lot of people. It's probably hard to find something similar for Android since the hardware and even software varies a lot.
I'm talking here strictly about outsoucing identifying the potential customers, not understanding their pain points or actually communicating with them. Are you saying that the process of identification is itself valuable?
Fair enough but personally I don’t care how many feathers are in your cap if you promote hatred the way Trump does. that’s just me though. Also I’m canadian :)
To add another "boring" salary data point:

- $56-70K USD - 2013-2015 - Software developer at a big corporation in the midwest.

- $90K USD - 2015 - Same company, new department. Unusually good pay for the area.

- $41-45K USD ($54-60K CAD) - 2016-current - Moved to Prince Edward Island, Canada (to marry my wife) and took a job as a software developer at one of the very few software companies here. The paycut was brutal, but all things considered, one of the best decisions I've ever made!
Only because fearmongering has scared people away from MSG. You can use it to improve the flavor of nutritious food, too. It’s conceptually no different than salt; junk food contains it, but that doesn’t mean you should avoid it in your own cooking.
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I'd seriously consider it, and I think a lot of other people would as well. People who are a bit older, a bit less sociable, or have families? Absolutely. Alternatively, new graduates who've not settled anywhere yet but would really like some money thrown at their overdraft.

> most people in these salary ranges aren't that badly impacted by high property prices in London

Everybody is impacted by high property prices in London, except the tax exiles with the empty mansions. I moved from Cambridge to Edinburgh and benefited greatly from the lower property prices.

However, as others point out, this seems to be fraudulent advertising: all the advertised positions are £60k. Where's the £100k coming from? Did they only have one post at that range which is now filled?

There does seem to be a sudden hiring boom going on in the UK, which I'm curious about - applicants are hard to find and advertised salaries are up. Alternatively is this the consequence of Brexit-induced skilled staff supply shortages?

(Pet peeve: it should be mandatory for job adverts to post a salary range, even if it's a really wide one)
Please do not post political flamebait, or any flamebait, to Hacker News.

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Abstract mathematics, and finding bugs, are not terribly closely related skills.
There is certainly a javascript extension for Postgres. Why use a client when you can run the same code on the frontend, backend, and queries?

(Here's a \s because I can imagine somebody saying the above.)
Please be civil on Hacker News.

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Not to mention e.g. transport links, and Brexit.
> > I really want unmodified Linux to work as well on my laptop as it does on nearly any desktop I've built.
> I don't understand your assertion ... everything works flawlessly out of the box ... To be fair, kernel patches were necessary to fix some issues ...

'needs kernel patches' != 'unmodified'
No, but the pharmacological effects are not to be ignored just because you have a different personal experience with the drug.

I am on a balanced schedule of stimulants that keep me productive and not-depressed. This doesn't give me the right to tell people to take these drugs because of my personal opinion; research shows the effects of stimulant use, abuse, and misuse, and it's mostly pretty negative.