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  "id": 10883,
  "title": "I'd like to join the competition but I am a bit worried.",
  "url": "/competitions/avazu-ctr-prediction/discussion/10883",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2014-11-10T10:16:16.417Z",
  "votes": 9,
  "comment_count": 4,
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  "content": "<p>Hello, I did some initial tests and I see some promising results so I'd like to join the competition.</p>\n<p>However.. I see that the anonimised data is being cracked. With all the brainpower + computing power here it might be a matter of time before the data is not anonimised anymore. (See the GEO_COUNTRY topic)</p>\n<p>I'm a bit worried what will happen then..<br>Are we allowed to use this decoded data ? Will the competition be halted ?</p>\n<p>Before I start to get hooked (which I always have once I have made a submission) I wanted to make sure if everything is stil fine and what the consequences will be.</p>",
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      "id": "57588",
      "postDate": "11/10/2014 10:16:16",
      "content": "<p>Hello, I did some initial tests and I see some promising results so I'd like to join the competition.</p>\n<p>However.. I see that the anonimised data is being cracked. With all the brainpower + computing power here it might be a matter of time before the data is not anonimised anymore. (See the GEO_COUNTRY topic)</p>\n<p>I'm a bit worried what will happen then..<br>Are we allowed to use this decoded data ? Will the competition be halted ?</p>\n<p>Before I start to get hooked (which I always have once I have made a submission) I wanted to make sure if everything is stil fine and what the consequences will be.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "57609",
      "postDate": "11/10/2014 15:25:22",
      "content": "<p>When anonymised data is used, an extra rule should be used &quot;Cracking of anonymised data will be considered as cheating&quot; or alike. At least this means when people do crack the data, they don't share it on the forums</p>",
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      "id": "57610",
      "postDate": "11/10/2014 15:30:19",
      "content": "<p>Yes.. I like a level playing field. :)<br>But also.. as a company I would not like my data being being exploited.<br>Perhaps Kaggle should have an extra security data-check before starting a competion even when it's not their responsibility.</p>\n<p>MD5 and also no salt is frowned upon nowadays.<br><br>But now the ghost is (almost) out of the shell. How do we put it back in..<br>I already had a feature-engineering idea with the decoded data.. And I'm very bad at feature engineering..</p>",
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      "id": "57611",
      "postDate": "11/10/2014 15:39:06",
      "content": "<p>Hahaha...:)))))</p>",
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    {
      "id": "57637",
      "postDate": "11/10/2014 18:15:10",
      "content": "<p>I don't think hacking should be regarded as cheating. In fact, hacking is an important data skill. The problem is the quality of the data. Software engineers should understand the basic security knowledge, e.g. MD5' security is compromised.&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": 57609,
      "author_name": "domcastro",
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      "post_date": "11/10/2014 15:25:22",
      "content": "<p>When anonymised data is used, an extra rule should be used &quot;Cracking of anonymised data will be considered as cheating&quot; or alike. At least this means when people do crack the data, they don't share it on the forums</p>",
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    {
      "id": 57610,
      "author_name": "juliandewit",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/10/2014 15:30:19",
      "content": "<p>Yes.. I like a level playing field. :)<br>But also.. as a company I would not like my data being being exploited.<br>Perhaps Kaggle should have an extra security data-check before starting a competion even when it's not their responsibility.</p>\n<p>MD5 and also no salt is frowned upon nowadays.<br><br>But now the ghost is (almost) out of the shell. How do we put it back in..<br>I already had a feature-engineering idea with the decoded data.. And I'm very bad at feature engineering..</p>",
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      "id": 57611,
      "author_name": "alexxanderlarko",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/10/2014 15:39:06",
      "content": "<p>Hahaha...:)))))</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    },
    {
      "id": 57637,
      "author_name": "songgc",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "11/10/2014 18:15:10",
      "content": "<p>I don't think hacking should be regarded as cheating. In fact, hacking is an important data skill. The problem is the quality of the data. Software engineers should understand the basic security knowledge, e.g. MD5' security is compromised.&nbsp;</p>",
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