diff --git a/modl/dict_fact.py b/modl/dict_fact.py
index 9f1dbc4..738e412 100644
--- a/modl/dict_fact.py
+++ b/modl/dict_fact.py
@@ -181,9 +181,9 @@ def _init(self, X):
                            order='F')
         self.B_ = np.zeros((self.n_components, n_cols), order="F")
 
-        self.counter_ = np.zeros(n_cols + 1, dtype='int')
+        self.counter_ = np.zeros(n_cols + 1, dtype=int)
 
-        self.n_iter_ = np.zeros(1, dtype='long')
+        self.n_iter_ = np.zeros(1, dtype=long)
 
         self.code_ = np.zeros((self.n_samples_, self.n_components))
 
@@ -587,4 +587,4 @@ def _update_dict_slow(self, subset, D_range):
 
     def _callback(self):
         if self.callback is not None:
-            self.callback(self)
\ No newline at end of file
+            self.callback(self)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7c55dea..257e4ca 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 DISTNAME = 'modl'
 DESCRIPTION = "Masked Online Dictionary Learning in Python"
-LONG_DESCRIPTION = open('README.rst').read()
+LONG_DESCRIPTION = open('README.md').read()
 MAINTAINER = 'Arthur Mensch'
 MAINTAINER_EMAIL = 'arthur.mensch@m4x.org'
 URL = 'https://github.com/arthurmensch/modl'