TASK DEFINITION: Given a sentence and an entity, the task is to select the authors sentiment towards the enity. Sentiments can be Positive, Neutral and Negative. Select Positive if the sentence expresses a positive view towards the given entity or praises its quality or skills. Select Neutral if the sentence expresses no clear view towards the entity or has equal amounts of positive and negative statements or expressing some fact/quote by someone else. Select Negative if the sentence expresses a negative view towards like harsh remarks, criticizing entities action/decision etc. Note that URLs in the text have been replaced with [Link].
PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Brannon Dorsey ? So that's what  Dorsey  did -- very successfully. Within about three hours   his  code (experimental  not malicious  apart from surreptitiously chewing up processing resources) was running on 117 852 web browsers  on 30 234 unique IP addresses. Adtech  it turns out  is a superb vector for injecting malware around the planet.

SOLUTION: Positive

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity John McCain ? It was deja vu all over again. With Senate Republicans inching closer to passing an Obamacare replacement bill  a potential fulfillment of seven years of campaign promises   Arizona Senator John McCain  once again intervened to save the failing law.  He  dramatically cast the deciding vote to kill a drastically pared-down "skinny repeal" bill over the summer  then reprised the spoiler role on Friday afternoon by announcing  his  opposition to legislation championed by  his  close friend and ally  Sen. Lindsey Graham. Between  McCain 's statement and Rand Paul's unconvincing 'purity' posture  Mitch McConnell can't afford to lose a single additional member of his caucus. The truth is  he already has. Anyone who's followed Susan Collins' record on this issue knows that Graham-Cassidy is dead. She's technically only "leaning" no  but that's tantamount to a hard no; I'm fairly certain she'd vote against her own Obamacare replacement plan at this point. In revealing his intention to torpedo the latest bill -- with just days remaining before the GOP's reconciliation authority expires  according to the Senate Parliamentarian  -- McCain  used process concerns as  his  primary fig leaf:

SOLUTION: Neutral

PROBLEM: What is the sentiment of the following document towards the entity Manouchehr Mottaki ?  Ali Larijani  parliament speaker and a close ally of Mottaki  said during a speech in an open session of parliament that he appreciated Mottaki's service.

SOLUTION:
Neutral