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  "id": 2502,
  "title": "Regarding the markdown syntax",
  "url": "/competitions/predict-closed-questions-on-stack-overflow/discussion/2502",
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  "post_date": "2012-08-30T08:14:35.167Z",
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  "content": "<p>I am trying to build my classifier using train-sample.csv. Unfortunately, I don't see the markdown syntax in the BodyMarkDown column of the dataset. Am i doing something wrong? Any guidance would be appreciated. :)&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "13639",
      "postDate": "08/30/2012 08:14:35",
      "content": "<p>I am trying to build my classifier using train-sample.csv. Unfortunately, I don't see the markdown syntax in the BodyMarkDown column of the dataset. Am i doing something wrong? Any guidance would be appreciated. :)&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "13651",
      "postDate": "08/30/2012 17:06:16",
      "content": "<p>I'm not sure I understand your question, but I think you're asking for a definition of the Markdown syntax.</p>\r\n<p>Markdown is a <a href=\"http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/\">sort-of standard</a>&nbsp;markup language, which is used by a number of different sites (<a href=\"https://github.com/\">Github</a> is probably the next largest user after Stack Exchange). &nbsp;Markdown\r\n can be thought of as an extension to HTML, providing some easier to read shorthands for common writing tasks. &nbsp;When processed, Markdown is transformed into HTML and technically any HTML is also valid Markdown.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately Markdown has some ambiguities (there's no formal gramar), and a couple different &quot;flavors&quot; are out there. &nbsp;For example, Github treats line breaks a little differently than Stack Exchange.</p>\r\n<p>While any given Markdown implementation will probably be &quot;close enough&quot; to Stack Exchange's for the purposes of this contest, we do have two open source implementations:&nbsp;<a href=\"http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/\">MarkdownSharp</a>&nbsp;(.NET) and\r\n<a href=\"http://code.google.com/p/pagedown/\">PageDown</a>&nbsp;(Javascript). &nbsp;These don't include a handful of extensions to Markdown that some Stack Exchange sites have (LaTex rendering, Youtube embedded, short hands for some in-site links, and the like), but these\r\n are either not enabled on Stack Overflow, used very rarely, or 1-to-1 replacements ([tag:foo] becoming\r\n<a class=\"x_post-tag\" href=\"http://www.kaggle.com/questions/tagged/foo\">foo</a> for example) that shouldn't distort the data.</p>",
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      "id": 13651,
      "author_name": "kevinmontrose",
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      "post_date": "08/30/2012 17:06:16",
      "content": "<p>I'm not sure I understand your question, but I think you're asking for a definition of the Markdown syntax.</p>\r\n<p>Markdown is a <a href=\"http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/\">sort-of standard</a>&nbsp;markup language, which is used by a number of different sites (<a href=\"https://github.com/\">Github</a> is probably the next largest user after Stack Exchange). &nbsp;Markdown\r\n can be thought of as an extension to HTML, providing some easier to read shorthands for common writing tasks. &nbsp;When processed, Markdown is transformed into HTML and technically any HTML is also valid Markdown.</p>\r\n<p>Unfortunately Markdown has some ambiguities (there's no formal gramar), and a couple different &quot;flavors&quot; are out there. &nbsp;For example, Github treats line breaks a little differently than Stack Exchange.</p>\r\n<p>While any given Markdown implementation will probably be &quot;close enough&quot; to Stack Exchange's for the purposes of this contest, we do have two open source implementations:&nbsp;<a href=\"http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/\">MarkdownSharp</a>&nbsp;(.NET) and\r\n<a href=\"http://code.google.com/p/pagedown/\">PageDown</a>&nbsp;(Javascript). &nbsp;These don't include a handful of extensions to Markdown that some Stack Exchange sites have (LaTex rendering, Youtube embedded, short hands for some in-site links, and the like), but these\r\n are either not enabled on Stack Overflow, used very rarely, or 1-to-1 replacements ([tag:foo] becoming\r\n<a class=\"x_post-tag\" href=\"http://www.kaggle.com/questions/tagged/foo\">foo</a> for example) that shouldn't distort the data.</p>",
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