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  "id": 12681,
  "title": "Blank files in test set?",
  "url": "/competitions/malware-classification/discussion/12681",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2015-03-04T15:55:03.017Z",
  "votes": null,
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  "content": "<p>So I have a ton of files (nearly 5000, .asm and .bytes combined) in the test set which are absolutely BLANK. Now I'm pretty certain there has been a download error (I keep getting a 'Data error:...file is broken ' error while unzipping)-but before I go back to the rather painful and 2 to 3 days long task of re-downloading the test set,&nbsp;</p>\n<p>can I check with any of you the sizes of the following example files?</p>\n<p>ITSUPtCmh7WdJcsYDwQ5.byte</p>\n<p>iwXK2bUysO0CPvBf8nTt.byte</p>\n<p>jEAbMPelkWmNgCrGU2QY.byte</p>\n<p>Also are the content of these files all '??&quot; . For me they are actually blank files .</p>\n\n<p>Would be grateful of your reply&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Thanks</p>",
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      "id": "65417",
      "postDate": "03/04/2015 15:55:03",
      "content": "<p>So I have a ton of files (nearly 5000, .asm and .bytes combined) in the test set which are absolutely BLANK. Now I'm pretty certain there has been a download error (I keep getting a 'Data error:...file is broken ' error while unzipping)-but before I go back to the rather painful and 2 to 3 days long task of re-downloading the test set,&nbsp;</p>\n<p>can I check with any of you the sizes of the following example files?</p>\n<p>ITSUPtCmh7WdJcsYDwQ5.byte</p>\n<p>iwXK2bUysO0CPvBf8nTt.byte</p>\n<p>jEAbMPelkWmNgCrGU2QY.byte</p>\n<p>Also are the content of these files all '??&quot; . For me they are actually blank files .</p>\n\n<p>Would be grateful of your reply&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Thanks</p>",
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      "id": "65418",
      "postDate": "03/04/2015 16:25:03",
      "content": "<p>None of them are blank.</p>",
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      "id": "65419",
      "postDate": "03/04/2015 16:27:43",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Abhishek;65418]</p>\n<p>None of them are blank.</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>Thanks....</p>",
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      "id": "65791",
      "postDate": "03/09/2015 17:25:54",
      "content": "<p>I'm having some&nbsp;problem with the following .bytes test files (they are full of &quot;??&quot;):</p>\n<p>N2TJvMjcebxGKq1YDC9k <br>pLY05AFladXWQ9fDZnhb <br>QpHV1IWD72EnAyB3FowM <br>spRNUv6MFb8ihB9JXk5r <br>TroLhDaQ2qkKe4XmtPEd<br>uzRUIAil6dVwWsCvhbKD <br>VZ2rzALmJS38uIG5wR1X <br>W8aI0V7G5lFTpOgSvjf6<br>W8VtX0E95TSzxJuGqiI4 <br>xYr76sCtHa2dD48FiGkK<br>y5l1PF7qGvsQSDgmRkKn<br>YvpzOeBSu7Tmia3wKlLf <br>ZOtweKduNMynmpiG4brh</p>\n<p>Can someone confirm this? Thanks so much!</p>",
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      "id": "65887",
      "postDate": "03/10/2015 15:51:05",
      "content": "<p>Even after downloading the test set again I'm getting the same problem of blank files!!! Is anyone facing the same problem? How do i get rid of this?</p>\n\n<p>Thanks</p>",
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      "id": "65904",
      "postDate": "03/10/2015 18:28:02",
      "content": "<p>@UD1989</p>\n<p>Download it again. Don't need to extract the files, check the md5 hash of the test.7z file, it has to match:</p>\n<p>84b6fbfb9df3c461ed2cbbfa371ffb43</p>",
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      "author_name": "abhishek",
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      "post_date": "03/04/2015 16:25:03",
      "content": "<p>None of them are blank.</p>",
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      "id": 65419,
      "author_name": "udatta",
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      "post_date": "03/04/2015 16:27:43",
      "content": "<p>[quote=Abhishek;65418]</p>\n<p>None of them are blank.</p>\n<p>[/quote]</p>\n<p>Thanks....</p>",
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      "id": 65791,
      "author_name": "snowdog",
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      "post_date": "03/09/2015 17:25:54",
      "content": "<p>I'm having some&nbsp;problem with the following .bytes test files (they are full of &quot;??&quot;):</p>\n<p>N2TJvMjcebxGKq1YDC9k <br>pLY05AFladXWQ9fDZnhb <br>QpHV1IWD72EnAyB3FowM <br>spRNUv6MFb8ihB9JXk5r <br>TroLhDaQ2qkKe4XmtPEd<br>uzRUIAil6dVwWsCvhbKD <br>VZ2rzALmJS38uIG5wR1X <br>W8aI0V7G5lFTpOgSvjf6<br>W8VtX0E95TSzxJuGqiI4 <br>xYr76sCtHa2dD48FiGkK<br>y5l1PF7qGvsQSDgmRkKn<br>YvpzOeBSu7Tmia3wKlLf <br>ZOtweKduNMynmpiG4brh</p>\n<p>Can someone confirm this? Thanks so much!</p>",
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      "id": 65887,
      "author_name": "udatta",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "03/10/2015 15:51:05",
      "content": "<p>Even after downloading the test set again I'm getting the same problem of blank files!!! Is anyone facing the same problem? How do i get rid of this?</p>\n\n<p>Thanks</p>",
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      "author_name": "snowdog",
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      "post_date": "03/10/2015 18:28:02",
      "content": "<p>@UD1989</p>\n<p>Download it again. Don't need to extract the files, check the md5 hash of the test.7z file, it has to match:</p>\n<p>84b6fbfb9df3c461ed2cbbfa371ffb43</p>",
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