Improve hash ring value conversion

The current method for computing the point on the hash ring converts
the MD5 digest into a 4-byte integer (and assumes big-endian). The
digest is actually a 16-byte value, so we are eliminating much of
the value, thus increasing the possibility of hash collisions.

This patch does two things:

  * Removes the endianness assumption
  * Uses the full value of the digest to create a long integer,
    which has unlimited precision in Python.

Change-Id: I554ec46f506cb8cdfd5878c11a905a3acfe92db0

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