I installed docker-machine 0.1.0 and docker-compose 1.1.0 on Mac OS 10.8.5.Docker-machine is running normally and able to connect by docker-machine ssh.
Apart from adding users to docker group, to avoid typing sudo repetitively, you can also create an alias for docker commands like so:
sudo
docker
alias docker-compose="sudo docker-compose" alias docker="sudo docker"