Github user rxin commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/550#issuecomment-41462077
I have one solution to this, although it is technically an API change, so
just throwing it out there for discussion. We can remove all the numPartitions:
Int arguments, and add an implicit conversion from int to HashPartitioner.
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