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 Michael Saltsman ? Those hardest hit by minimum wage increases tend to work for businesses that "donât have a tremendous ability to absorb new labor costs " according to  Saltsman . Restaurants  for example  tend to have incredibly narrow profit margins  and government-mandated wage hikes force these businesses to cut costs. Unfortunately  cutting costs often means letting go of "less skilled or less experienced employees " replacing them with machines  and self-service options.

SOLUTION: Positive

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 Jimmy Butler ? James Harden scored 31 points and the Houston Rockets won their 11th straight game with a 120-102 victory Friday night over the Minnesota Timberwolves  who lost All-Star Jimmy Butler to an apparent right knee injury.

SOLUTION:
Negative