Allow files added through SparkContext.addFile() to be overwritten

This is useful for the cases when a file needs to be refreshed and downloaded
by the executors periodically.

Signed-off-by: Yinan Li <liyinan926@gmail.com>
Addressed comments from Reynold

Signed-off-by: Yinan Li <liyinan926@gmail.com>
Replace the code to check for Option != None with Option.isDefined call in Scala code.

This hopefully will make the code cleaner.
modified SparkPluginBuild.scala to use https protocol for accessing github.
Merge pull request #460 from srowen/RandomInitialALSVectors

Choose initial user/item vectors uniformly on the unit sphere

...rather than within the unit square to possibly avoid bias in the initial state and improve convergence.

The current implementation picks the N vector elements uniformly at random from [0,1). This means they all point into one quadrant of the vector space. As N gets just a little large, the vector tend strongly to point into the "corner", towards (1,1,1...,1). The vectors are not unit vectors either.

I suggest choosing the elements as Gaussian ~ N(0,1) and normalizing. This gets you uniform random choices on the unit sphere which is more what's of interest here. It has worked a little better for me in the past.

This is pretty minor but wanted to warm up suggesting a few tweaks to ALS.
Please excuse my Scala, pretty new to it.

Author: Sean Owen <sowen@cloudera.com>

== Merge branch commits ==

commit 492b13a7469e5a4ed7591ee8e56d8bd7570dfab6
Author: Sean Owen <sowen@cloudera.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 27 08:05:25 2014 +0000

    Style: spaces around binary operators

commit ce2b5b5a4fefa0356875701f668f01f02ba4d87e
Author: Sean Owen <sowen@cloudera.com>
Date:   Sun Jan 19 22:50:03 2014 +0000

    Generate factors with all positive components, per discussion in https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/pull/460

commit b6f7a8a61643a8209e8bc662e8e81f2d15c710c7
Author: Sean Owen <sowen@cloudera.com>
Date:   Sat Jan 18 15:54:42 2014 +0000

    Choose initial user/item vectors uniformly on the unit sphere rather than within the unit square to possibly avoid bias in the initial state and improve convergence
Merge pull request #490 from hsaputra/modify_checkoption_with_isdefined

Replace the check for None Option with isDefined and isEmpty in Scala code

Propose to replace the Scala check for Option "!= None" with Option.isDefined and "=== None" with Option.isEmpty.

I think this, using method call if possible then operator function plus argument, will make the Scala code easier to read and understand.

Pass compile and tests.
Merge pull request #516 from sarutak/master

modified SparkPluginBuild.scala to use https protocol for accessing gith...

We cannot build Spark behind a proxy although we execute sbt with -Dhttp(s).proxyHost -Dhttp(s).proxyPort -Dhttp(s).proxyUser -Dhttp(s).proxyPassword options.
It's because of using git protocol to clone junit_xml_listener.git.
I could build after modifying SparkPluginBuild.scala.

I reported this issue to JIRA.
https://spark-project.atlassian.net/browse/SPARK-1046
Merge pull request #466 from liyinan926/file-overwrite-new

Allow files added through SparkContext.addFile() to be overwritten

This is useful for the cases when a file needs to be refreshed and downloaded by the executors periodically. For example, a possible use case is: the driver periodically renews a Hadoop delegation token and writes it to a token file. The token file needs to be downloaded by the executors whenever it gets renewed. However, the current implementation throws an exception when the target file exists and its contents do not match those of the new source. This PR adds an option to allow files to be overwritten to support use cases similar to the above.
Switch from MUTF8 to UTF8 in PySpark serializers.

This fixes SPARK-1043, a bug introduced in 0.9.0
where PySpark couldn't serialize strings > 64kB.

This fix was written by @tyro89 and @bouk in #512.
This commit squashes and rebases their pull request
in order to fix some merge conflicts.
Merge pull request #523 from JoshRosen/SPARK-1043

Switch from MUTF8 to UTF8 in PySpark serializers.

This fixes SPARK-1043, a bug introduced in 0.9.0 where PySpark couldn't serialize strings > 64kB.

This fix was written by @tyro89 and @bouk in #512. This commit squashes and rebases their pull request in order to fix some merge conflicts.
Merge pull request #497 from tdas/docs-update

Updated Spark Streaming Programming Guide

Here is the updated version of the Spark Streaming Programming Guide. This is still a work in progress, but the major changes are in place. So feedback is most welcome.

In general, I have tried to make the guide to easier to understand even if the reader does not know much about Spark. The updated website is hosted here -

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tdas/spark_docs/streaming-programming-guide.html

The major changes are:
- Overview illustrates the usecases of Spark Streaming - various input sources and various output sources
- An example right after overview to quickly give an idea of what Spark Streaming program looks like
- Made Java API and examples a first class citizen like Scala by using tabs to show both Scala and Java examples (similar to AMPCamp tutorial's code tabs)
- Highlighted the DStream operations updateStateByKey and transform because of their powerful nature
- Updated driver node failure recovery text to highlight automatic recovery in Spark standalone mode
- Added information about linking and using the external input sources like Kafka and Flume
- In general, reorganized the sections to better show the Basic section and the more advanced sections like Tuning and Recovery.

Todos:
- Links to the docs of external Kafka, Flume, etc
- Illustrate window operation with figure as well as example.

Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>

== Merge branch commits ==

commit 18ff10556570b39d672beeb0a32075215cfcc944
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 28 21:49:30 2014 -0800

    Fixed a lot of broken links.

commit 34a5a6008dac2e107624c7ff0db0824ee5bae45f
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 28 18:02:28 2014 -0800

    Updated github url to use SPARK_GITHUB_URL variable.

commit f338a60ae8069e0a382d2cb170227e5757cc0b7a
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 27 22:42:42 2014 -0800

    More updates based on Patrick and Harvey's comments.

commit 89a81ff25726bf6d26163e0dd938290a79582c0f
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Jan 27 13:08:34 2014 -0800

    Updated docs based on Patricks PR comments.

commit d5b6196b532b5746e019b959a79ea0cc013a8fc3
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Jan 26 20:15:58 2014 -0800

    Added spark.streaming.unpersist config and info on StreamingListener interface.

commit e3dcb46ab83d7071f611d9b5008ba6bc16c9f951
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Jan 26 18:41:12 2014 -0800

    Fixed docs on StreamingContext.getOrCreate.

commit 6c29524639463f11eec721e4d17a9d7159f2944b
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Jan 23 18:49:39 2014 -0800

    Added example and figure for window operations, and links to Kafka and Flume API docs.

commit f06b964a51bb3b21cde2ff8bdea7d9785f6ce3a9
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 22 22:49:12 2014 -0800

    Fixed missing endhighlight tag in the MLlib guide.

commit 036a7d46187ea3f2a0fb8349ef78f10d6c0b43a9
Merge: eab351d a1cd185
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 22 22:17:42 2014 -0800

    Merge remote-tracking branch 'apache/master' into docs-update

commit eab351d05c0baef1d4b549e1581310087158d78d
Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 22 22:17:15 2014 -0800

    Update Spark Streaming Programming Guide.