LaurentS

Not exactly answering the question, but I recently used aliexpress.com and their captcha system is super easy: it shows a sliding button like the one to answer a call on a phone. The prompt just asks you to slide it to validate your input. Not sure how it works, but it sure is a much better UX than when I have to spend 3 minutes identifying for hydrants. Maybe we could make a FLOSS version of it?

The cable was tagged with its name, it was very easy to read, probably brand new

A few years ago, while strolling along the beach in Myanmar, I happened upon SeaMeWe-5, which was accessible to anyone willing to peek into a manhole (why I peeked down that manhole, I'll never know). At the time, the cable was pumping about 90% of the country's internet traffic, if I recall correctly. I thought it was quite worrying that it was so unprotected... With a shovel, I could have been that woman too. https://www.submarinecablemap.com/#/landing-point/ngwe-saung...

Hi kantord, congratulations on the site! I tried something similar about 10 years ago, called wikibabel. I then joined with another site called wikiotics.org. We were very focused on libre everything. In the end, we gave up after several years, but our content is still up and we've been looking for a new home for it. Please take a look and see if any of it would be useful for you (we had built a bunch of cards very similar to your demo lesson). We had stuff in a few dozen languages, including audio recordings (mostly of low quality). I've moved on, but I still love the goal, and would be happy to share some feedback on the experience if you want (contact on my profile page).

In short:

- focus on what the user wants, not the tech.

- is English->Spanish the best language pair to start with? You're directly competing with the giants like Duolingo. I tried to learn Burmese a few years back, I would have loved to find something like this for that niche.

Good luck!

I have all my mailboxes with gandi.net. Each domain you buy from them comes with 2 fully managed emails, and I think 3GB storage each, for just over $1/month. I basically never get spam, nor blocked emails. They have 2 webmail interfaces too, but I don't use them. As a bonus, gandi financially supports a ton of open source projects, which never hurts.

I actually wonder about this. SO's typical user is tech-savvy, and I would imagine many access the site with adblockers on (I do). So I suspect my value to the site in terms of ads is close to zero. I would happily pay a monthly subscription to know that the service will remain, given how much value I derive from it, if that gave me the assurance that they won't track me with ads/cookies/fingerprinting.

Their other income is from job ads, and I guess the value is that they have lots of data points about their logged in users (with scores high enough to imply they've interacted with the site a fair bit), in the form of what is posted, worth more than the aggregated list of websites that a user sees (as reported by ads).

I'd love to know more about this, as I have very little understanding of the economics of serving targeted ads. How much can they be making from ads?

I know someone who looked into the fake propaganda spread around social networks in Myanmar (WhatsApp is essentially not used there, but Facebook and Viber are the big ones). It turned out it was virtually impossible to trace the origin of messages because most people were copy/pasting messages instead of forwarding them. Which makes me wonder how much of an impact is actually expected of this. The cynic in me worries that it may be a way for the platform to wash its hands...

Same here. I had never heard of them. Turns out they're a YC'15 startup (https://www.apollo.io/company/). There are no passwords in the data they lost according to HIBP. They seem to collect personal data from various sources and help other companies increase sales.

page 7 of this has the details of who voted what. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-%2f%2f...

From my limited experience with calling MEPs, they don't always get the entire picture. Who could blame them for not being experts in web, nuclear energy, agricultural policies and more all at the same time? One way to help them is by calling them up and explaining our views on topics we care about. Mass emailing doesn't seem to do more than clog their spam filters, but a phone call actually seems to at least be listened to, if not acted on.

ZigWay | Several roles | Yangon, Myanmar | ONSITE or REMOTE, FULL-TIME | $20k-45k + equity | https://www.zigway.co/

ZigWay is an early stage fintech social enterprise. We help low income families break free of debt traps and poverty through access to finance.

We're looking to fill two positions:

- A tech lead to take over the role of CTO, to be the link between the tech team and the rest of the company, and shape the future of the product, and the company. ONSITE

- A Senior React/React Native developer for our mobile & web apps. 3-5 years coding experience, at least a couple of apps under your belt, but mostly a strong desire to use your skills to help our fight against poverty. (REMOTE or ONSITE)

Tech stack: Python/Django, React, React-Native, Redux

Remote work or relocate to Myanmar if you like tropical weather :) (we can help with visas) Drop me a line at laurent@zigway.co

I've just put together a simple list of MEPs and their voting intentions (far from complete, it's only the few I've heard about more or less directly). It would be great if you can add what you've heard from MEPs you've spoken to. If anything, it may help focus efforts when speaking to MEPs. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A8H7OQfyjzdn8RhQ7ifw...

ZigWay | Several roles | Yangon, Myanmar | ONSITE or REMOTE, FULL-TIME | $20k-45k | https://www.zigway.co/

ZigWay is an early stage fintech social enterprise. We help low income families break free of debt traps and poverty through access to finance.

We're looking to fill several positions:

- A Senior React/React Native developer for our mobile & web apps. 3-5 years coding experience, at least a couple of apps under your belt, but mostly a strong desire to use your skills to help our fight against poverty.

- A tech lead/product manager to be the link between the tech team and the rest of the company, and shape the future of the product, and the company.

Remote work or relocate to Myanmar if you like tropical weather :) (we can help with visas) Drop me a line at laurent@zigway.co

ZigWay | Several roles | Yangon, Myanmar | ONSITE or REMOTE, FULL-TIME | $20k-45k | https://www.zigway.co/

ZigWay is an early stage fintech social enterprise. We help low income families break free of debt traps and poverty through access to finance.

We're looking to fill several positions: - A Senior React/React Native developer for our mobile & web apps. 3-5 years coding experience, at least a couple of apps under your belt, but mostly a strong desire to use your skills to help our fight against poverty. - A tech lead / CTO to be the link between the tech team and the rest of the company, and shape the future of the product, and the company.

Remote work or relocate to Myanmar if you like tropical weather :) (we can help with visas) Drop me a line at laurent@zigway.co

Great to see Myanmar people on HN! Are you in Yangon?

ZigWay | Mobile/front-end developer or full-stack | Yangon, Myanmar | ONSITE or REMOTE, FULL-TIME | $25k-40k | https://www.zigway.co/

ZigWay is an early stage social fintech startup helping poor families get out of debt traps and poverty through access to finance.

We're looking for a react-native developer to take over our mobile app from the founding CTO (I'm too busy elsewhere). 3-5 years coding experience, at least a couple of RN apps under your belt, but mostly a strong desire to use your skills to help our fight against poverty. You'll also work on our react web front-end, and python/django/DRF backend if you have the appetite for it.

Remote work or you can relocate to Myanmar if you like tropical weather :) (we would help with visas)

Drop me a line at laurent@zigway.co