Upgrading tslint to 5.9.0 (#194)

* Upgraded tslint to latest

* Addressing more lint errors

* Addressed all linter errors

* Added align rule back

* Further tweaks to rules

* Fixing test compilation error

* Fixing more test compilation errors

* More minor improvements to typings

* Replacing remaining references to Object type

* Updated packages and merged with master

* Addressing some readability nits

Author: hiranya911

package-lock.json

@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
     "sinon": "^4.1.3",
     "sinon-chai": "^2.8.0",
     "ts-node": "^3.3.0",
-    "tslint": "^3.5.0",
+    "tslint": "^5.9.0",
     "typescript": "^2.6.1"
   }
 }