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  "id": 1618,
  "title": "download seems to hang",
  "url": "/competitions/kddcup2012-track2/discussion/1618",
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  "post_date": "2012-03-22T19:06:48.713Z",
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  "content": "<p>I'm not sure why, but every time I try to download that dataset, at some point it hangs. Is this possibly somehow a failing of how chrome is interacting with the download server, or are other folks having those difficulties?</p>",
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      "id": "9661",
      "postDate": "03/22/2012 19:06:48",
      "content": "<p>I'm not sure why, but every time I try to download that dataset, at some point it hangs. Is this possibly somehow a failing of how chrome is interacting with the download server, or are other folks having those difficulties?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "9662",
      "postDate": "03/22/2012 19:14:09",
      "content": "<p>Sorry for the trouble - there's been hundreds of successful downloads, but a small proportion of users seem to be having issues. I'll be releasing a torrent file soon that will enable you to download the data as well, so hopefully that will help ameliorate\r\n the issue.</p>\r\n<p>In the meantime, could you clarify which operating system you are using and which country you're coming from? I assume you're using the latest version of chrome (but I've not been able to reproduce the issue using chrome on OS X or Windows 7, or Chromium\r\n on Ubuntu).</p>",
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      "id": "9664",
      "postDate": "03/22/2012 19:24:43",
      "content": "<p>I&quot;m on a mac, os x lion</p>\r\n<p>it starts off fine, then fails at some point, and maybe thats because at some point the authentication of the connection fails?</p>\r\n<p>I also tried on firefox, and it failed at some point too.</p>",
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      "id": "9665",
      "postDate": "03/22/2012 19:25:47",
      "content": "<p>i've not had trouble downloading data sets (at least today) from the kaggle site proper, so maybe its something wrt the different in config for the kdcup domain?</p>\r\n<p>either way, post the torrent soon please :)</p>",
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      "id": "9670",
      "postDate": "03/23/2012 02:56:25",
      "content": "<p>Hi Carter, I am also on Mac OS X, and I encountered the same problem on Chrome. However, when I did the same in Firefox, it seemed to work. Perhaps you can try switching browsers? Good luck.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "10813",
      "postDate": "05/05/2012 09:30:28",
      "content": "<p>I have the same problem - I can't seem to be able to download the file, the transfer hangs at about 1.7 GB. Is a torrent file available yet?</p>",
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    {
      "id": "10829",
      "postDate": "05/06/2012 03:51:37",
      "content": "<p>Hey all, it seems that the problem has to do with using a wifi rather than ethernet connection. Or at least every time i try to dl via wifi on a mb air, i had this problem, but with my other machine that has a wired ethernet port theres no problem. May or\r\n may not be relevant for you all or not </p>\r\n<p>cheers</p>",
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      "id": 9662,
      "author_name": "benhamner",
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      "post_date": "03/22/2012 19:14:09",
      "content": "<p>Sorry for the trouble - there's been hundreds of successful downloads, but a small proportion of users seem to be having issues. I'll be releasing a torrent file soon that will enable you to download the data as well, so hopefully that will help ameliorate\r\n the issue.</p>\r\n<p>In the meantime, could you clarify which operating system you are using and which country you're coming from? I assume you're using the latest version of chrome (but I've not been able to reproduce the issue using chrome on OS X or Windows 7, or Chromium\r\n on Ubuntu).</p>",
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      "id": 9664,
      "author_name": "carter",
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      "post_date": "03/22/2012 19:24:43",
      "content": "<p>I&quot;m on a mac, os x lion</p>\r\n<p>it starts off fine, then fails at some point, and maybe thats because at some point the authentication of the connection fails?</p>\r\n<p>I also tried on firefox, and it failed at some point too.</p>",
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      "id": 9665,
      "author_name": "carter",
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      "post_date": "03/22/2012 19:25:47",
      "content": "<p>i've not had trouble downloading data sets (at least today) from the kaggle site proper, so maybe its something wrt the different in config for the kdcup domain?</p>\r\n<p>either way, post the torrent soon please :)</p>",
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      "id": 9670,
      "author_name": "ryanko",
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      "post_date": "03/23/2012 02:56:25",
      "content": "<p>Hi Carter, I am also on Mac OS X, and I encountered the same problem on Chrome. However, when I did the same in Firefox, it seemed to work. Perhaps you can try switching browsers? Good luck.</p>",
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      "id": 10813,
      "author_name": "mindless",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "05/05/2012 09:30:28",
      "content": "<p>I have the same problem - I can't seem to be able to download the file, the transfer hangs at about 1.7 GB. Is a torrent file available yet?</p>",
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      "id": 10829,
      "author_name": "carter",
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      "post_date": "05/06/2012 03:51:37",
      "content": "<p>Hey all, it seems that the problem has to do with using a wifi rather than ethernet connection. Or at least every time i try to dl via wifi on a mb air, i had this problem, but with my other machine that has a wired ethernet port theres no problem. May or\r\n may not be relevant for you all or not </p>\r\n<p>cheers</p>",
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