Wondering whether there's any written best practice from an authoritative source (Google or a Google representative like John Mueller) that discusses best practices for blog URL formatting.  I believe I've read (although I can't exactly remember where) that including dates in your blog URL is preferred for news-based sites, while omitting the date in the URL is preferred for non-news sites.  www.example.com/2017/march/how-to-blog/ vs www.example.com/how-to-blog/  Is there any documented best practice on dated URL structures?
I was curious about the date in URL segments, is there any SEO point of benefit? For example the following URLs:  http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/18/netflix-will-launch-in-the-netherlands-later-this-year-as-its-international-expansion-slows/ http://tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.in/2007/02/adding-favicon-icon-to-blogger-url.html  https://community.jivesoftware.com/blogs/jivespace/2013/05/15/eol-of-the-html5-ipad-web-app   In all the above URLs there is date segment. The information of those blogs can be fetched via blog stub like "netflix-will-launch-in-the-netherlands-later-this-year-as-its-international-expansion-slows" so why to use that date part?
Availability of MXD file for OpenStreetMap data in Esri Geodatabase? From what I understand, an ArcGIS mxd file contains the "styling" information on how to show data.  I downloaded and imported OpenStreetMap data into my geodatabase. Now I need to show them.  Is there any available mxd file match the OpenStreetMap fields/values that I can use?  I check this question(), but the links are all dead.  ps: right now the all the highway/roads/trail display as a single line in my map. I want to use mxd to show them in a better way, like Mapnik or google. Do I need an airport transit visa for Dublin, Ireland en route to the UK? I am Haitian, and traveling with a Haitian passport. I have to go to London with a work permit (tier 2 visa) on the 29th of July but I have 2 hour transit in Dublin.  Do I need a transit visa? Can I get it at the airport?  I also have a valid US visa. How do I get attention for old, unfixed bug reports and feature requests without official responses here on Meta? I posted a question here on Meta Stack Exchange, or on a per-site meta, regarding a bug I found in the system. I got no comments, or a few comments stating that this is a legitimate bug (and not by design). However, it's been quite a long time, and no official response was ever posted there.  Or, I had an idea for a new feature, but realized it's already requested, either by searching or posting a request myself only to have it closed as a duplicate of the existing one. It's been a while since the original request was filed, but no official response has been made.   I'm aware that staff members are , but either my post isn't about one of the indicated topic areas for which they're accepting escalation requests for that month, or I already flagged to request escalation but it was declined, so the instructions there don't apply for my post.  What can I do to draw attention to meta questions for the SE team, so they can give an official response, and possibly implement the bug fix or feature?  Note: This is different from other general questions which ask for how to get attention for unanswered questions, since the procedures on meta sites are different, and getting an official response isn't necessarily the same as getting a good answer. I remember my English teacher saying that there are only two valid ways to make a one-word sentence:   A question:      Why? Where?  A command:     Go! Stop!    Is this correct? How do you determine the winner of a hand? In Texas Hold'em poker, there are some cases where a particular card, often called kicker, acts as a tiebreaker between players to determine who wins the pot, or if the pot has to be shared.  For some combinations such as three or four of a kind, there is no doubt: the kicker is the 5th card of the chosen combination, and determines the winner.  Example     Alice has 7 and 10   Bob has 7 and K   On the board are 7, 7, 2, 3, 4   In that case, both have a three of a kind. But because Bob has a king and Alice only a 10, he wins.  Most of poker websites explaining the rules clearly mention the role of the kicker applying to three of a kind and double pairs. But much fewer say something about colors, straights and full houses, and I found many contradicting answers. I also asked the question to some used online poker players and they also gave me contradicting answers.  I have tried to search for official tournament rules, but most of them only explain what happens with bad behaviors, bad deals, incorrect or confusing betting, showing cards when you shouldn't, acting when it's not your turn, etc. without mentioning subtleties about combinations at all.  To simplify my question, I will take three examples; I think it's better to start with examples before getting to the general answer if one exists. So, what's happening in the following 3 examples? Could you give a more generalized answer?  Example 1 - Flushes     Alice has 2&clubs; and 3&clubs;   Bob has 4&clubs; and 5&clubs;   On the board are 6&clubs;, 8&clubs;, 10&clubs;, 2&hearts;, 5&diams;   Contradicting answer 1: it's a tie, because the highest card included in the flush is the 10, which everybody chooses to include in their 5 showdown cards. Contradicting answer 2: Bob wins, because he has the greatest private card that is part of the flush  Example 2 - Straight     Alice has 6 and K   Bob has 6 and J   On the board are 4, 5, 7, 8, 10   Contradicting answer 1: it's a tie, because the greatest card in the straight is the 8 for both Alice and Bob Contradicting answer 2: Alice wins, because she owns an extra king, compared to the jack of Bob  Example 3 - Full house     Alice has 3 and 7   Bob has 3 and 6   On the board are 3, 3, 2, 2, 5   Contradicting answer 1: it's a tie, because one is supposed to choose only five cards to make a combination, and a full house is already five cards. There couldn't be any kicker, and thus their showdowns are strictly equals. Contradicting answer 2: Alice wins because of her extra 7, compared to the 6 of Bob  Thank you very much for your answers.  Note: I'm unable to post next to you, so I edit my own post; strange not be able to answer to an answer.  Ok, So if I summarize what you are saying :   In the flush case, Bob wins because at some point, their hand differs. Technically, I can continue comparing the highest private card to decide who wins. I had it correct. In the straight case, if the highest card of the straight is public, then it's technically always a tie, no matter what the players had as second private card (asuming that only one of the two cards was part of the straight). In a full house if both players have the same triplet and the same pair, it's always a tie, no matter what the players had as second private card (assuming again that only one of the two was part of the full house).   Please confirm me that what I summarized is correct.  Thank you for your answer. What did the public at large know about the assassination attempt on Palpatine and how he survived it? I mean, for the people of the galaxy, Palpatine was just a politician past his middle ages. How could this man have survived against four Jedi Council members in his office while “unarmed,” say that the attempt “left him scarred and deformed,” and people believe in this? How fast is Earth moving through the universe? As the galaxy is moving and the solar system orbiting the galaxy and the Earth orbiting the sun. So how fast is each object moving and what is the fastest we move at?  Do we even know how fast the galaxy is moving that is not relative to another galaxy (although I guess velocity has to be measured relative to something). The latex file coding is not there but the pdf file is there I wrote all my coding in the .tex file. The next day when I opened it the coding is all gone and the pdf file is opening with it and is displayed as an output. How do I bring back my coding? Assuming one wants to travel through China, what are the rules for visa-free access? To be more specific:   How does the 24-hour visa free transit work? How does the 72-hour version work? What does a person ineligible for either of these programs have to do to transit China? Do the programs apply to flights only or do they also work for transit on land? Would a visitor save much hassle by using visa free transit instead of just getting a visa?      NB: this is intended as a canonical question on transiting China How is the Integral of $\int_a^bf(x)~dx=\int_a^bf(a+b-x)~dx$ Can Some one tell me what this method is called and how it works With a detailed proof   $$\int_a^bf(x)~dx=\int_a^bf(a+b-x)~dx$$  I've been using this a lot in definite integration but haven't seemed to have realized why it is true.  But whatever it is it always seems to work.  Basically a proof of how it is always true. How to make X.org listen to remote connections on port 6000? This is on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) 64-bit desktop.  I want to make my X server listen to remote connections from clients in other machines on the local network. I know about ssh -X and that is not what I want. I vaguely remember changing something like TCPListen from no to yes, but I don't remember where this change should be applied.  I'm interested in either a GUI method or a CLI one.  PS editing /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc to remove the -nolisten tcp option and rebooting does not work. Are security.ubuntu.com updates eventually merged into normal updates? Upon my observation, seems new packages will first appear in security.ubuntu.com, but if you upgrade later, they will appear in XX.archive.ubuntu.com (depends on your config),  Was that true ? Change edit approval/rejection I accidentally clicked reject on the suggested edit on this question(). I can't find the button to change it to Approve? Long-distance movement arrow in gloss I have a question on drawing an arrow using gb4e. Currently, I am trying to use the method described in the link below. The problem takes place when I draw the long distance arrow like (5). As you can see the picture below, the line cross over the gloss. I would like to draw the horizontal line like the example (1). How can I evacuate the crossing?    \documentclass[11pt, dvipdfmx]{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{calc} \newcommand\tikzmark[1]{\tikz[remember picture, baseline=(#1.base)] \node[anchor=base,inner sep=0pt, outer sep=0pt] (#1) {#1};}  % This code from http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/55068/2693 \tikzset{     ncbar angle/.initial=90,     ncbar/.style={         to path=(\tikztostart)         -- ($(\tikztostart)!#1!\pgfkeysvalueof{/tikz/ncbar angle}:(\tikztotarget)$)         -- ($(\tikztotarget)!($(\tikztostart)!#1!\pgfkeysvalueof{/tikz/ncbar angle}:(\tikztotarget)$)!\pgfkeysvalueof{/tikz/ncbar angle}:(\tikztostart)$)         -- (\tikztotarget)     },     ncbar/.default=0.5cm, }  % Thanks to Paul Gessler adn Percusse for code improvement here \newcommand{\arrow}[2]{\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay] \draw[-&gt;,shorten &gt;=3pt,shorten &lt;=3pt] (#1.base) to [ncbar=\arrowht] (#2.base); \end{tikzpicture} \setlength{\arrowht}{0ex} } \usepackage{gb4e} % The following code modified from  % http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.linguistics/1036 % This adds some extra space after the first line \newlength{\arrowht} \setlength{\arrowht}{0ex} \newcommand*\cgdepthstrut{{\vrule height 0pt depth \arrowht width 0pt}} \renewcommand\eachwordone{\cgdepthstrut\rmfamily} \renewcommand\glt{\vskip -\topsep} \let\trans=\glt \newcommand\arrowex{\setlength{\arrowht}{2.5ex}\ex}   \begin{document} \begin{exe} \ex\label{scramble-det} \begin{xlist}         \arrowex          \gll          \ldots dat Jan \tikzmark{een} auto gisteren \tikzmark{t}  gekregen heeft.\\         \ldots that John a car  yesterday t gotten has \\         \ldots that John a car yesterday.         \arrow{t}{een} \end{xlist} \end{exe}  \begin{exe} \ex\label{scramble-dets} \begin{xlist}         \ex          \gll          \ldots dat Jan een auto gisteren t gekregen heeft.\\         \ldots that John a car  yesterday t gotten has \\         \ldots that John a car yesterday. \end{xlist} \end{exe}  \begin{exe} \ex[]{     \gll     John-wa totetumonaiukurai baka-da.    \\     John-Top very stupid-cop \\     `John is very studip.'     }  \ex[]{     \gll     John-wa totetumonaiukurai dousiyoumonai tondemonai sukuigatai baka-da.    \\     John-Top very very very very stupid-cop \\     `John is very studip.'     }  \arrowex[]{     \gll     \tikzmark{John}-wa totetumonaiukurai dousiyoumonai tondemonai sukuigatai  \tikzmark{t} baka-da.    \\     John-Top very very very very stupid-cop \\     `John is very stupid.'         \arrow{t}{John} }  \end{exe}  \end{document} Question mark and colon in JavaScript What is Skynet's ultimate goal after defeating the resistance? Is it stated in any expanded universe what Skynet's plans were after wiping out the Human race (assuming that was its plan)?  Maybe space travel to colonise different planets or something else entirely? Redirect 301 with hash part (anchor) # Why is "idea" sometimes pronounced as "idear"? I know that idea is pronounced as /aɪˈdiə/, but I've meet several people in real life who put an 'r' at the end of the word. How come? Android app intermittently shows blank body in questions and answers (multiple sites) Why is sudoers NOPASSWD option not working?