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I cant see how Kaggle is good for the data scientist (but I can certainly see how it is good for the hiring companies). It seems like the design spec work. I find it horendous that people do work for a company and most of them never get paid for it. It is disgusting. The top #1 in Kaggle according to the article only got paid 6 times. Lets put it into perspective. Companies that wanted web developers stopped hiring them and started using a similar service, in which, everyone would create a version of the application, with only the frontend available for other contestants, in order to foster competition. Then the company chose the best one and only the winning team would get paid. This is capitalism at its worst, and long-term it is severely harmful. In a modern work-rights aware society this should be illegal, spec work that is... At least the communities should critic it in my opinion and not embrace it.