Translating Academic papers
jacquesm: I run in to this every now and then, I really want to read a paper but either it is in a language that I don't have enough skills in, or, alternatively the paper requires so much background terminology that I can't work my way through it without spending half a day in dictionaries and reference material.Whether I would pay for it or not would be dependent only on whether or not I was being paid to understand the paper. I read plenty of stuff that is interesting but outside of my main field of interest (IT), but since I won't be making any money on collecting that knowledge it is not worth more than my investment in time.For those papers that I can't get through there are plenty of alternatives, the amount of interesting information out there is staggering. It isn't rare at all to come out of the week with a much longer reading list than going in to it.HN is quite a large contributor to that :)