How to "really" solve the problem of "underfull \hbox" when typesetting url in footnote
Rather than breaking mid-word, you can re-introduce some stretch space around the break characters (.
and /
here) I use
\Urlmuskip=0mu plus 10mu
which allows more than enough flexibility in this case.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\Urlmuskip=0mu plus 10mu
\begin{document}
We use this dataset
\footnote{\url{http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Parkinson+Speech+Dataset+with++Multiple+Types+of+Sound+Recordings\#}}
for experimentation.
\vfill
\noindent X\dotfill X
\end{document}
\url
tries hard to break the url only at "sensible" places. But if you don't like this you can allow \url to break everywhere:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\makeatletter
\g@addto@macro{\UrlBreaks}{%
\do\/\do\a\do\b\do\c\do\d\do\e\do\f%
\do\g\do\h\do\i\do\j\do\k\do\l\do\m%
\do\n\do\o\do\p\do\q\do\r\do\s\do\t%
\do\u\do\v\do\w\do\x\do\y\do\z%
\do\A\do\B\do\C\do\D\do\E\do\F\do\G%
\do\H\do\I\do\J\do\K\do\L\do\M\do\N%
\do\O\do\P\do\Q\do\R\do\S\do\T\do\U%
\do\V\do\W\do\X\do\Y\do\Z}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
We use this dataset
\footnote{\url{http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Parkinson+Speech+Dataset+with++Multiple+Types+of+Sound+Recordings\#}}
for experimentation.
\end{document}
Be aware that as there are no stretchable spaces the line is still a bit underfull.