This reopens PR 649 from incubator-spark against the new repo

Author: Sandy Ryza <sandy@cloudera.com>

Closes #102 from sryza/sandy-spark-1064 and squashes the following commits:

270e490 [Sandy Ryza] Handle different application classpath variables in different versions
88b04e0 [Sandy Ryza] SPARK-1064. Make it possible to run on YARN without bundling Hadoop jars in Spark assembly