I do agree that you are providing a useful service by spreading high quality technical information. My understanding is that unauthorized translations are more common and more tolerated in Russia than in the US. But HN is a very law-abiding business-oriented site, and justifiably is concerned with following the law. Thanks for signing up here to explain, and please try to work with DanG to come up with a plan.
"Пользователь осознаёт и соглашается с тем, что размещённая им информация может быть использована поисковыми или другими автоматизированными сервисами и иными способами."
Here is the translation:
"User acknowledges and agrees that the uploading of such information can be used by search engines or other automated services, and in other ways."
But anyway, we will get in touch with authors. We'll try to find that out.
DanG: let me know if you guys have any other concerns. Do you want us to specify the link to author's habrahabr profile in addition ?
If the article you're translating was itself translated from an original source, then "author" here means author of the original material. The latter would seem like an obscure edge case, except that some of the translations you published actually were that.
We want solid content on HN, so I'd like to find a way to have these posts not be a problem. No doubt the community will scrutinize future posts, so we may have this discussion again, but for now we won't ban the site if you do the above.
Original articles, of course, are more than fine. One problem with grey-area tactics is that they make your whole site look shady. Readers will think that all your articles must be hijacks, whether they are or not. To pick one example that was posted to HN, who wrote http://kukuruku.co/hub/mobiledev/mobile-typography? It's not clear whether this content was created for your site or stolen from elsewhere; besides which, readers want to know the names of the authors they're reading.
If you attribute everything clearly and prominently, this should go a long way toward clearing things up.
Hasty Edit: Googling reveals that you copied the mobile typography content from http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/programming/mobile/9780.... That's disgusting, and certainly explains why you omitted any attribution. If you keep doing it, we'll ban your site, despite our fondness for translations of obscure but solid Russian technical articles.
It's in your interest to pay attention here. You have first-rate, highly technical HN users like nkurz, acqq, and jacquesm—plus a site moderator—bending over backwards to help you. If the material on your site were merely the usual blogspam, none of us would care. We're putting time into helping you because we want access to the solid material. There's clearly demand for top-notch Russian articles in English translation. On the other hand, none of us has patience for yet another shitty hijack outfit on the internet. You can't be both; not here, anyway. Please turn this into a positive by listening to the community feedback and cleaning up your act.
Also, what about asking authors for permission to translate and republish their work?
No, your claims are dangerous and misleading. Even if I decide not to show my real name I want to be present as a person who wrote the article. You take that away. The name of the author and the link to his profile before the start of the article are the minimum you have to do. You have to ask the author for permission before you do the translation and publish the article, using the communication mechanisms of the site from which you take the content. And you must write that it's a translated text.
Before you do all that, the way you present your material remain questionable enough to have my vote for banning the articles.
No, it doesn't.