This site assumes that I am the one who decides whether or not I should get out of bed, but since I had a kid three years ago I haven't had much of a say anymore...

I used to set my alarm for 7am. Now I have a cat who feels 6:50am is more appropriate and is incredibly accurate in his ability to tell me it is that time.

Be the Alpha and get a squirt bottle instead of letting a cat dictate when you can and can't sleep.

A bit harsh for that 10 minutes. I like being woke up by my cat. Most of the time.

I completely recommend buying a feeder with a timer, so they don't associate you with their feeding schedule. That solved the problem for me. (But your cats might already be too conditioned to wake you up for it to help.)

I was impressed when my dog would lie down by his bowl one minute before feeding time. I think he may have been keying of the sunlight position, which is always available where I live.

Danger! This is a progressive condition that will continue to get worse as the cat expects breakfast earlier and earlier.

Indeed. I pivoted that around a bit. I've been pulling my now teenager out of bed for the last 10 years at 5am. It's a lovely time of day for angsty 13 year olds. (:

Sorry for your kid, I hope they forgive you. Early mornings for school are a scourge on society.

Don't feel too sorry for him, he usually plays Minecraft or Kerbal Space Program for several hours before school starts.

What's the weather got to do with getting out of bed? I sleep in a house with walls and a roof to protect me from that stuff.

I had the same thought. I don't get it.

Absent extreme situations, such as a hurricane approaching (in which case one should get up and leave the region), the weather has zero bearing on whether I should get up or even whether I feel like getting up.

(And yes, I am exposed to the weather daily--I walk to work each day, rain, shine, snow, warm, or 20 below.)

All the folks in this thread responding like this are confusing. Do you never jog, ride a bike, go for hikes? In general, do you ever spend your Saturday mornings outside? The weather plays a huge role when I'm deciding whether to sleep in or not.

Sure I go outside for recreation, but I don't get up earlier just to do that. More of, "oh the weather's nice, let's do a bike ride," not "I'm getting up early to do a bike ride."

It's not about how the weather is affecting you inside, but whether it's worth it to get up and go experience it outside.

Sometimes it's nice to get up early and go outside to get a little fresh air before the daily grind.

I live in Minnesota. We had a warm (7 deg C) day a couple of weeks ago after months of sub-freezing temps, and I was reminded of how good it feels to be outside and not miserable. I actually got to the office, made a cup of coffee, then left the office again just to walk around outside and enjoy the outdoors.

Probably sounds crazy to people with shorter winters, but you really don't know what you have until you don't have it.

I was just reflecting on how much life is easier when you have a mild winter (this year, NYC). Aside from temps, the past 12 months here have been incredibly sunny. The summer and fall were perfect. Thank you El Niño.

That's what the balcony is for.

I expected this to be one of those joke web sites that just says "YES" any time you load it. I don't entirely get the point of "should I get up?" sometimes saying no.

I expected it to be a diagnostic questionnaire since it said 'unbiased'

I thought of this too. Or, a 301 to: http://www.isitbeeroclock.com/

Because most people would need to get out of bed for beer.

Since it told me "yes" (because the weather is nice?), I still kinda think that's what it is.

It told me yes because the weather is awful here.

IF you're sitting in bed reading HN, then yes, you should get up.

I often check HN in bed as a way to wake my brain up after sleeping, works for me. Besides, being lazy in bed is not necessarily time wasted.

Ehhh... so it's a weather website? What's that got to do with whether I should get up >_<

If there's going to be crazy precipitation... maybe I'll just stay in bed.

Without checking the weather though, anytime it's rainy in the morning I always feel 300% more lethargic, as if some primal instinct is saying "it's raining out there, better just not."

I like to think it's that the sound of rain is so relaxing that I am just in a state of pure comfort and that's why I don't want to get out of bed.

I also have a folder of rain sounds collected off of archive.org and some other places, for when I want to get deep work like programming done. I feel much better at creative tasks when I'm relaxed by rain sounds.

The weather where I live is quite variable in the spring and fall. If I realize that it's 50 degrees (F) and sunny on a Saturday morning, then I'm definitely going to force myself to get out of bed and go for a bike ride. But if it's 34 degrees and raining, then I'll probably just switch on Netflix.

There was an audio documentary on this years ago:

http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/73660/

Spoken like a true hacker

What does the bracket thingy mean in light of your comment? It doesn't seem to convey anything related. Perhaps it is the millennial emoticon for "I shit on this"

Another interesting app/site that I'm using to help me get out of bed is EarlyRisersHub . You check in every day and earn points, and compete with others this way. http://www.earlyrisershub.com

Another interesting lifehack I'm using is "a job".You check five times a week and earn value units, and compete with others "co-workers" this way.

The problem with this is that there's too much stuff an value units being created by the developers, which has devalued everything, but they haven't updated the value unit gain rate for some time

Interesting! I've grown a bit tired of gameification of real life with apps, but this made me realize that it's really helpful to Kickstart a new habit.

$1,000 stretch goal: Will stretch before climbing out of bed

$2,500 stretch goal: Will stretch after climbing out of bed

$5,000 stretch goal: Will perform universe-encompassing long yawn during duration of both stretches

Patreon, if you want to fund the habit long term.

can't believe they don't use https for their logins.

I'm assuming you're getting downvoted for your lack of capitalisation and sentence subject, rather than the sentiment.

I was going to sign up for this, but now I won't knowing that their login page has not a whiff of security about it.

Oh my, I have no idea I got downvoted. How can you tell?

Sorry, only just seeing this.

On HN, downvoted comments "fade out" of view. The font gets lighter to start to match the background.

It is working something in background but nothing is happening.

It apparently needs location access to show anything. No thanks.

Well duh. How is it supposed to make any statement about the situation at your place when it does not know your location?

The only alternative is: return (rand() > RAND_MAX/2) ? "Yes" : "No";

Assuming a perfect random number generator, this would be the only way to make the website's answer truly "unbiased." Right now it has a heavy bias on the weather.

That's still biased towards a very lazy lifestyle.

And on the author's taste in weather.

What's the harm in a site that includes no third-party resources (other than jquery) knowing that a request has arrived from a <del>vague</del> <ins>specific</ins> location?

Doesn't work in the latest Chrome Dev, the dev console says that you need to use HTTPS in order to call getCurrentPosition().

It doesn't seem to work in Safari on iOS :(

Wouldn't this decision heavily depend on whether, and when I have to go to work today?

Personally, I've found myself sleeping better and feeling happier when I manage to stick to an early start, regardless of whether I'm working or when.

For a long time I generally got up as late as I could get away with, but am now very glad I managed to coax myself into being a (relatively) early-riser.

If you're up and reading in bed the answer is almost always yes. You never want your brain to associated laying in bed with anything other than sleep or sex.

I find this so ridiculous - both as someone who has worked in research psychology and as a person who, like many others, has a bed and likes to sleep...

If we were such simple creatures that we could be so easily conditioned to not sleep because of previous non-sleep activities in bed, sex of all things would be one of the biggest drivers of insomnia. It produces a significant reward and we're very much wired to want it - as such, it would make a powerful unconditioned stimulus if anything could. Therefore, the previous poster's claim isn't even valid on its face. Sex should absolutely be done elsewhere if we're so easily conditioned away from sleep.

Instead, I'd substitute the idea that things like light exposure do matter (so tv and digital tools are often counter to falling asleep). Another useful idea is the rule of thumb that if you're trying to sleep but can't, after some period of time of tossing and turning, get up, keep the lights dim but do something else and come back in a little bit and try to get yourself in the sleep groove again. It's conceptually not so different from a pilot aborting a landing and going around again, I guess.

If you're having sex while reading this, you should definitely stop. You don't want to associate browsing Hacker News with anything except procrastinating at work... so put your pajamas back on.

Why not?

Apparently because it breaks the mental association between being in bed and sleeping, which can exacerbate sleep problems/insomnia and reduce quality of sleep.

That's begging the question (in the original and still proper use =) – the OP's claim has become a bit of a platitude on the internet and yet I've seen scant evidence for it. It may well be there, but, admittedly, as I said above, it doesn't seem to be really all that wise.

And what about reading a few minutes to clear your mind of the previous day?

IMO unless you have trouble falling asleep, the "bed is for sleep or sex" advice is not as useful as "just make sure you get enough sleep."

I agree, just wanted to see what he would come up with.

Asking for location / weather IS NOT UNBIASED.

The temperature would be a nice addition -- it may be a sunny morning where I am, but it's also 21 degrees (-6 C).

Temperature is much less important than the 4 factors they do list, in my opinion.

Right now it's -23C here, with no wind and a bright sun reflecting off of perfect powder. It's so beautiful that it's one of those days you contemplate skipping work -- there are not too many nice skiing days left this season.

That would be nice - I'd definitely be out and about if it was that warm.

The weather being reported is much more optimistic than what I'm seeing outside my window.

Funny, it picked up my location perfectly, but the time is off by one hour.