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  "id": 3425,
  "title": "Cutoff time selection",
  "url": "/competitions/flight/discussion/3425",
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  "post_date": "2012-12-21T05:03:40.463Z",
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  "content": "<p>I am sorry if I missed this in the description. &nbsp;What is the criteria or distribution used to generate the random cutoff times? &nbsp;For example, is there a certain range of times that the cutoff time is being uniformly selected from? &nbsp;Or is it possible that\r\n a cutoff time in a future dataset will be shortly after &quot;day_beginning&quot;, i.e. 09:01:00 UTC?</p>",
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      "id": "18320",
      "postDate": "12/21/2012 05:03:40",
      "content": "<p>I am sorry if I missed this in the description. &nbsp;What is the criteria or distribution used to generate the random cutoff times? &nbsp;For example, is there a certain range of times that the cutoff time is being uniformly selected from? &nbsp;Or is it possible that\r\n a cutoff time in a future dataset will be shortly after &quot;day_beginning&quot;, i.e. 09:01:00 UTC?</p>",
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      "id": "18620",
      "postDate": "12/26/2012 07:15:24",
      "content": "<p>Cutoff times were chosen uniformly at random between 9am EST and 9pm EST on each test day.</p>",
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      "id": "18658",
      "postDate": "12/27/2012 10:12:16",
      "content": "<p>Hello !</p>\r\n<p>And did you publish these cutoff times somewhere? (or do we have to retrieve them by ourself?)</p>\r\n<p>Thanks!</p>",
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      "id": "18669",
      "postDate": "12/27/2012 13:44:56",
      "content": "<p>They are in the days.csv file in the PublicLeaderboardSet folder.</p>",
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      "id": 18620,
      "author_name": "benhamner",
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      "post_date": "12/26/2012 07:15:24",
      "content": "<p>Cutoff times were chosen uniformly at random between 9am EST and 9pm EST on each test day.</p>",
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      "id": 18658,
      "author_name": "toulouse",
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      "post_date": "12/27/2012 10:12:16",
      "content": "<p>Hello !</p>\r\n<p>And did you publish these cutoff times somewhere? (or do we have to retrieve them by ourself?)</p>\r\n<p>Thanks!</p>",
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      "id": 18669,
      "author_name": "bjg9846",
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      "post_date": "12/27/2012 13:44:56",
      "content": "<p>They are in the days.csv file in the PublicLeaderboardSet folder.</p>",
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