conflagration

I have a bet going on with a friend for some years, about if there will be a hack or data-breach that exposes DNA data in the next 10 years (from 2009). He comes to visit tomorrow, so I researched if there is a public known incident yet, but couldn't find anything.

So I am wondering, if HN does know of something that could fall under this category?

I was reading the article "I'll Probably Never Hire Another Pure SysAdmin" yesterday and kept wondering if there is a good book that covers all the sysadmin topics that typically occur in a start-up.

For my specific setup a book covering AWS, Chef/Puppet, deploying (to node.js) and monitoring would be nice. I know there are a lot of tutorials for specific topics out there, but I am looking for a general book presenting an all integrated solution.

I aim for comments recommending books covering all kind of topics regarding web-start-up server/cloud administration.

After reading some articles about virtual personal assistants, I want to ask the community, if they know of any good site to find me an assistant paid on an hourly basis for some research tasks I have to get done(i.e. finding tables of measurement data in a certain format). The tasks are not as simple as ordering food, but on a level low enough, so that they can be done by any half-way intelligent person without any previous knowledge on the topic.

I would really like to source some things out. Can you help me?

Edit: After doing some research, I found oDesk almost fits my needs, they are only missing one key feature: Searching for people speaking other languages than English.