[I am the submitter.]
It is a long article, but worth reading. The suspicion of Chinese involvement in two major U.S. power outages is extremely worrying. Following are quotes on related aspects.

The Central Intelligence Agency's chief cyber-security officer, Tom Donahue, said that hackers had breached the computer systems of utility companies outside the United States and that they had even demanded ransom.

... many of the systems that [U.S.] utility operators use were designed by others. Intelligence officials now worry that software developed overseas poses another layer of risk because malicious codes or backdoors can be embedded in the software at its creation. U.S. officials have singled out software manufacturers in emerging markets such as, not surprisingly, China.

"Numerous computer networks around the world, including those owned by the U.S. government, were subject to intrusions [in 2007] that appear to have originated within" the People's Republic of China. ... the [Chinese] Army is "building capabilities for information warfare" for possible use in "pre-emptive attacks."

What is the purpose of the big > at the top that uses up horizontal space for all the comments ever? I thought maybe it was a way to collapse the thread, but it wasn't clicky. Nested comments are really important to me, so horizontal space is really premium.

I think all the people complaining about the "new" look are silly. It's not that new. And I think the buttons are visible and attractive. They even highlight when you mouse over them. I think most of the world can handle webpages that use graphical buttons.

I agree that the reply-to-the-article button is hard to find. Nothing really useful should be at the bottom of the page. Seems like search should also not be at the bottom of the page.

I guess I would say all your buttons should be consistent. The in-line edit box buttons do not match your reply-to-comment buttons. The reply-to-article buttons are also links. One thing with a dynamic page is that if something looks like a link, I expect it to take me away from the page. If it looks like a button, I'm more likely to expect it to be dynamic.

The "If you have difficulty with this form" text should be lined up with the text box and the buttons, I would think. The text box should stretch to fill the width of the page. I think it is a little awkward when internal margins (like between the text box and the buttons) are thicker than the padding of the container (like between the buttons and the gray border.

In any case, it's all very cool. Good job!

-If