Using a feature named "_type" fails with certain operations
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Thanks for reporting !

Indeed this is a keyword in the library that is used to encode/decode features to a python dictionary that we can save/load to json.
We can probably change `_type` to something that is less likely to collide with user feature names.
In this case we would want something backward compatible though.

Feel free to try a fix and open a PR, and to ping me if I can help :) 
2021-01-13T10:53:28Z
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A column named `_type` leads to a `TypeError: unhashable type: 'dict'` for certain operations:
```python
from datasets import Dataset, concatenate_datasets

ds = Dataset.from_dict({"_type": ["whatever"]}).map()
concatenate_datasets([ds])
# or simply
Dataset(ds._data)
```
Context: We are using datasets to persist data coming from elasticsearch to feed to our pipeline, and elasticsearch has a `_type` field, hence the strange name of the column.

Not sure if you wish to support this specific column name, but if you do i would be happy to try a fix and provide a PR. I already had a look into it and i think the culprit is the `datasets.features.generate_from_dict` function. It uses the hard coded `_type` string to figure out if it reached the end of the nested feature object from a serialized dict.

Best wishes and keep up the awesome work!