[teraflop]

Serious question: are there any browsers in common use that don't display PDFs inline? Chrome and Firefox both do, and their built-in PDF viewers seem very simple and streamlined and efficient.

It just seems a bit odd to question whether a 760KB PDF is "worth it" when the current top post on HN is a blog post that downloads 780KB of Javascript, and has attracted no such comments.

Anyway, the paper is very interesting. The sorting example is particularly impressive -- I almost wouldn't have believed it was possible to learn automatically.

[nhaehnle]

I'm running Firefox on a fairly beefy laptop, and the integrated PDF viewer annoyed me so much that I disabled it some time last year. I suppose it's fine for simple stuff, and it's definitely better than an Adobe Reader plugin, but it just manages to be much too sluggish on too many real-world examples out there when standalone viewers work just fine and smooth - but unfortunately don't integrate well in the overall browsing experience.

[SkyMarshal]

I'm a serial computer and browser abuser, and on OS X, I can easily crash my browser, and sometimes even the whole OS, if I'm not careful what I load up in a new browser tab. So I'd rather have the simpler abstract page too.

[SandB0x]

The browser on my phone and tablet