[screye]

> NeurIPS

That was fast.

I was all for a name change from a juvenile pun, but "NeurIPS" is hilariously bad. It confirms, that everyone but the press, continues calling it NIPS.

> line to see Flo-Rida went around the block

I mean, if it was a free (already paid for) concert, then I would go for it too.

[eanzenberg]

Not just free concert but free food and booze.

BTW the whole renaming of NIPS to NeurIPS could be an episode of SV, where a board of directors are all offended by names of body parts!

[freeone3000]

"So tell me, what's wrong with the Proceedings of Neural Information Systems again?"

[r00fus]

Let's just ignore the racial epithet part shall we?

[titanomachy]

"Nip" used to be a somewhat common perjorative term for Japanese (i.e. Nipponese; the Japanese word for Japan is Nippon). In case anyone else was confused by this comment.

[eanzenberg]

I've never heard it used in this context, but I guess people can get offended by pretty much anything these days.

[mikeash]

It’s real but old timey. Unless you’re quite a bit older than the HN average, you probably wouldn’t have heard it. That, of course, doesn’t mean it’s ok.

[JetSpiegel]

Or you read Cryptonomicon.